Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constantly subject to pressure by members of his Conservative Party (including Cabinet members) to whom Hitler was a "guardian of capitalism" and to whom any alliance with Soviet Russia was anathema. They professed to be impressed by accounts of German air superiority, stressed the purely defensive value of French fortifications, discounted Soviet military power, the French Army's will to fight. They said nothing about the well-trained Czech Army, Britain's undisputed control of the seas, the unfinished condition of Germany's defenses, German insufficiency in raw materials, German internal discontent, the German Army...
...done in Siberia, Japan rather than Germany would do it. But the Ukraine was different. There the signs were getting plainer and plainer that Führer Hitler thought the time was approaching when the Ukraine-which includes parts of Poland and Rumania as well as of Soviet Russia-would be ripe for Nazi plucking...
With the reduction of Czecho-Slovakia last autumn to a German puppet state forced to do Nazi Germany's bidding, the real frontiers of Germany were moved 300 miles eastward. They now touch Rumania, front on Polish Ukrainian districts, reach within 90 miles of the Soviet Union...
...Ukraine. A military mission arrived to teach the hastily arming Ruthenians the art of warfare. A Ukrainian "Free Corps" was formed, while the Carpatho-Ukrainian militia named their organization after Colonel Eugene Konovaletz, former Ukrainian leader murdered in Amsterdam last year when an assassin, rumored to be of the Soviet secret police, placed a time bomb in his overcoat pocket...
Borderland. The Ukrainian districts of Eastern Europe constitute a huge hunk of southeastern Poland (Galicia), a narrow slice of northern Rumania (northern Bessarabia), the eastern tip of Czecho-Slovakia (Ruthenia) and the most fertile and second most populous of the eleven major constituent states of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Ukrainian S.S.R.). No great loss would it be for Czechoslovakia to lose undeveloped Ruthenia, with only 550,000 inhabitants, to a Hitler-inspired "Greater Ukraine." Rumania also could well survive after her Ukrainian districts, with 800,000 inhabitants, had been detached. For Poland, however, the loss of eastern Galicia...