Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facing the situation squarely, and by warning the men that, although individual hardships cannot be avoided, the remedial measures are for the general good, the financial and economic problems of the country can be solved. Naturally the Government was riot anxious to increase unemployment during the severity of a Russian winter, but in taking measures to do so, they showed both confidence in the workers and courage in their own convictions...
...following letter, based on U. S. President Coolidge's message to Congress (TIME, Dec. 17), was sent to the President by Georges Tchicherin, Foreign Minister of the Soviet Government, through the Russian Telegraph Agency, sole connecting link between the two countries...
Grand Duke Nicholas, cousin of Tsar Nicholas II (who with his family was reported to have been murdered by the Bolsheviki at Ekaterinburg), and one time Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Russian Army, was reported to be preparing for a "peaceful conquest" of Soviet Russia...
...Duke believed that the Russian people would recall the old rulers if they had a free choice. He appealed to Russian emigres scattered all over the world, of whom there are said to be 2,000,000, to contribute one franc (about 5? ) per month for the dissemination of Tsarist propaganda in Russia with the object of delivering the people from the Bolsheviki and giving them a fair chance of holding a plebiscite for the election of a new Tsar...
This peaceful penetration program does not contradict the agreement recently reached by the Imperial Russian Family at Paris (TIME, Dec. 10), except regarding the recognition as Tsar of the Grand Duke Cyril by the family, which was guaranteed if the question were to arise in the future. The House of Romanov decided to back the Grand Duke Nicholas' plan, but promised to consider Tsar Nicholas alive. "If and when Russia is reconquered, should it be found that the Ekaterinburg murders really took place, the Russian people will be asked to hold a plebiscite for a new Tsar...