Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More Flexible." When Foreign Minister Vilhelms Munters of Latvia alighted in Moscow to face Stalin and Molotov they asked him to sign approximately the same form of treaty as was forced upon Estonia, except that it was "more flexible" from the Russian point of view, provided that an indefinite number of "airdromes" and "bases" shall be leased by Latvia as the Red Air Force and Army may later require, while the Red Navy leases bases in the ports of Libau and Windau. Again J. Stalin demanded exchange of ratifications within six days, but departing Foreign Minister Munters was not simply...
...Soviet newspaper translations of the speech into Russian made a few minor but significant changes. Where Hitler named "Stalin" this was changed to "Russia." The Führer's assertion that "Soviet Russia remains Soviet Russia and National Socialist Germany remains National Socialist Germany" was telescoped and softened into "Russia remains Russia and Germany remains Germany...
...long as the theatre of war remains some 4,500 air miles away from India, Indians will probably show no haste in deciding to help the British Lion. Last week, however, the old bugbear of Russian expansion was looming in the North. There were reports of mobilization in mountainous, wild Afghanistan caused by the proximity of reinforced Soviet garrisons. Afghanistan is the northern gateway to India. From Shanghai came a story of Russian troops in China's Sinkiang Province and a fantastic suggestion that they might threaten India via the trackless 16,000-ft. high plateau of Tibet...
...ambassador, not an art director, was Agha's early ambition. A dark, widish man, son of a landowner and tobacco magnate who had kept his Turkish citizenship, he was born 43 years ago at Nikolaev in the Russian Ukraine. In 1917 he was studying at the Polytechnic Institute in Petrograd, became successively a civil servant under Kerensky, a painter of party posters under Lenin. Five years later, while clerking in his brother's delicatessen shop in Paris, he drifted into designing, soon grew successful in the field of elegant advertisement...
...first shock on joining the Lincoln Battalion after its retreat from Teruel. Of 500 men who had started the battle there were about 100 filthy, unarmed survivors, silent or snarling, lying dead-beat on a hillside. In a week, with new replacements and an issue of old Russian Imperial Army rifles, they had to slog back into the line, still dopey with fatigue. "You fired till the rifle got too hot to handle; then you opened the bolt and blew down the barrel and let it cool, resting your face on your extended arm, waiting. You got so you were...