Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sabotaged" by "Trotskyist-Bukharinist traitors," will not be repeated. Then some 1,000,000 census-takers set out to make a house-to-house canvass Many thought that the figures turned up then showed: 1) a decrease in population; 2) too many Russians to be religiously minded for Soviet comfort. No question regarding religious belief or disbelief will be asked in the present census, nor will Soviet citizens again be allowed to list themselves as prostitutes, lackeys or tramps. Soviet citizens will be occupationally grouped under broader terms. The classification for priests is "servitor of a cult...
...fortress of Brest-Litovsk (now in Poland) on March 3, 1918, a Russian delegation signed a humiliating treaty which detached from All the Russias not only Finland and the White Russian provinces of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia but also the valued Ukraine. Leon Trotsky had been the chief Soviet figure during the negotiations. The Bolshevik delegation had included a soldier, sailor, peasant, worker...
...addition to the Russian Ukraine's traditional obstinacy Germany would encounter the fact that the Ukraine of 1938 is not only rich but apparently pretty well satisfied. Iron, steel, machine-building and chemical industries dot the Donetz region. Kharkov, birthplace and longtime capital of the Soviet Ukraine, is an industrial city specializing in farm equipment. Instead of growing only wheat, the Ukraine's rich, black soil now produces sugar beets, flax, cotton. Fully 96% of the land is now collectivized. From the Ukraine come some of the Soviet's best-known figures: Alexei Stakhanov, author...
...recent discernible signs of separatist feeling have come from the Soviet Ukraine. Stalinist purges seem to have taken no more lives in the Ukraine than in some other parts of Russia. The same, however, cannot be said of Poland, where Ukrainian deputies recently were bold enough to demand autonomy for Galicia. The Nazi agitation for redistribution of land is likely to appeal to impoverished, disenfranchised, long-suffering Galician peasants. The Polish feudal rulers, caught between Naziism in the West and Communism in the East, are more likely, when faced with a final choice, to choose Hitler than Stalin...
...series of border incidents. It is possible that Poland will some day become provoked enough to strike back hard. Then Führer Hitler would probably bluntly announce that he is responsible for the integrity of the Ruthenian borders. France would be reminded of the Polish-French Alliance and Soviet Russia, fearful of what might happen later to her own Ukraine, might be inclined to urge Polish resistance...