Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech by A. Hitler used to be the signal for every Soviet station to go on the air and try to drown him out. By order of J. Stalin all Soviet stations were respectfully silent during the Reichstag speech (see p. 34) and Russian listeners who understood German heard every word.* Soviet comment was uniformly favorable, particularly as to the Führer's claim that Eastern Europe is now a sphere of Soviet-German influence in which they will tolerate no intervention by Britain and France...
Meanwhile, Moscow hotels overflowed with constantly arriving representatives of German shipping, oil and rye firms as well as engineers sent to help the Soviet Union improve its backward transport systems. This week two big Nazi planes brought an Economic Delegation of 14, and after they conferred with Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov a communiqué announced that Russia will "immediately begin supplying Germany [raw] materials and Germany begin filling orders [of finished products...
...Business As Usual." Against all these signs of what J. Stalin wanted Russians to think, for the Dictator's control of press and radio is active and absolute, was a bland attitude toward Britain of "business as usual" taken by the Soviet Export Corp. The keen Bolshevik traders who run this big business saw merely that German submarines and mines in the Baltic blocked the usual Russian autumn shipments of timber to the British Isles. They promptly cabled to Norwegian, Swedish and Danish shipping firms, offering to charter Scandinavian freighters to carry Soviet timber...
Last Hour. While the larger issue of Soviet armed intervention or peaceful mediation in World War II remained a question, Moscow proceeded swiftly snapping what a Swedish commentator called "Stalin shackles" on the defenseless Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland...
...Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, which in exchange for trade favors had agreed to permit Red Army, Navy and Air Force units to dominate its soil from leased bases (TIME, Oct. 9), there was a great dither of excitement. J. Stalin had demanded that ratifications of the Soviet-Estonian Treaty be exchanged without fail in six days, a trick J. Stalin learned from A. Hitler when demanding a quick handover from little States like Austria and Czecho-Slovakia. Only an hour now remained before this time limit expired and the necessary papers had not yet arrived from Moscow. To nervous...