Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King Michael's last major acts before he abdicated, 2½ years later, was to swear in Zvi Rabinsohn's daughter as his Foreign Minister. That was during Soviet-Rumanian Friendship Week...
They piled into two French army trucks and headed for freedom. Four blocks away two Soviet jeeps, bristling with Tommy guns, brought them to a halt. Almost instantly 75 Soviet-sector police swarmed from the shadows of a nearby building. As the Germans were taken, dawn was just beginning to fill the skies above the ruins...
Pawnshop City. Today, there are less than 50,000 Red army soldiers in Rumania but, stationed at key points throughout the country, they are enough. Also, Moscow has settled about 20,000 Russian families around Constanta on the strategic Black Sea coast. Through seven huge "Sovroms" (Soviet-Rumanian combines), the Russians almost completely control transport, oil, timber, banking, and everything else they can lay their hands on, even including Rumania's tiny motion picture industry. A Rumanian proverb covers the situation: "When the Russians help us, they always take something away...
...rich" ones (anyone owning more than 49 acres) quaked, some of the "poor" ones queued up for examinations preliminary to joining the Communists. In a Warsaw suburb three of them flunked. When asked "Who is Poland's greatest enemy?" (the prescribed answer: "American imperialism"), they said: "The Soviet Union...
...World Federation of Trade Unions, lambasting a Communist resolution in favor of the W.F.T.U. itself. Deakin's presidency represents British labor's hope of rescuing the W.F.T.U. from Red domination. That hope, Deakin roared, has gone glimmering. He said that the W.F.T.U. was becoming a tool of Soviet foreign policy. The congress boomed approval, the tick tack men flickered like lizards along the wall, and the Communist motion was defeated...