Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus Anton Deniken found himself supreme over two White Russian Governments. The glory went to his head. He conducted himself with the imperiousness of a Romanov, and finally he antagonized the chief of his Cossack officers, Baron Wrangel...
When Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary heard that Bela Kun was under lock & key in Vienna, he formally demanded his extradition into Hungary to face charges of having ordered the execution of 144 Hungarians during the 143 days of "Red Terror." Meanwhile, at Vienna, Russian Soviet Agents were said to be offering fat contracts to Austrian industry as an inducement to persuade the Austrian Government to "deport" Bela Kun back to Russia...
Russia. Even today some 30,000 of these "Knights" maintain themselves by agricultural labor in Bulgaria & Jugoslavia (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926); and stand ready, as a functioning, militant unit to render fealty to the Russian whom they recognize as "Tsar"-the Grand Duke Nicholai Nicholaievich, who resides in prudent retirement near Paris (TIME, April...
...when Baron Wrangel found himself failing in health, he offered the allegiance of his "White Knights" unreservedly to the Grand Duke Nicholai and himself retired to live quietly in Brussels. There he has been attended by only a few faithful followers, among them the Russian Archpriest who, last week, administered to him last rites...
...explain how that regime came to exist is to recall the three principal White Russian Commanders whom the Allies had previously put in the field against Red Russia. One army struck North from Estonia under General Nikolai Nicholaievich Yudenich, who in 1919 advanced until he could see the spires of Petrograd, only to be driven back. A second White Army and Government was dominated by Admiral Alexander Vasilievich Kolchak. In 1919 he advanced from Siberia until he was within 450 miles of Moscow. Later, when he was driven back, he signed a ukase transferring the Siberian Government over which...