Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Self-Determination!" Orator Hitler began by attacking democratic states as being bedfellows in the League of Nations with Soviet Russia, "which maintains its rule by shootings and tortures." Only in Germany and Italy, he cried, were the people 99% behind their governments. He branded Czechoslovakia as a pseudo-democracy forcibly created by the Treaty of Versailles, and accused former French Air Minister Pierre Cot of having once said: "The task of Czechoslovakia in a future war will be to bomb the key industries of Germany...
Over the bleak, barren hill of Changkufeng on the Siberian-Manchukuoan border seven weeks ago snarled the fighting forces of Japan and Russia. Moscow claimed the whole hill was in Soviet territory when the scrap started. But when a truce was finally arranged between Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff and Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan was left with her present firm hold on the westward slope of Changkufeng. Russia agreed to submit final ownership to arbitration, thus gave up her previous absolute claim to Changkufeng. For this truce Japan last week was ready to pay off in kudos. Tokyo dispatches...
...lucky was Russia's Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Boris Spiridonovich Stomoniakov, for years the top Soviet authority on the Far East, and adviser to Commissar Litvinoff on the Changkufeng dispute. In Moscow last week it was officially announced that Old Bolshevik Stomoniakov, who joined the Communist Party in 1902, was kicked out of his Foreign Office job on August 7-the day when 110 Soviet tanks, 40 warplanes, heavy Russian field artillery and some thousands of Red Army troops were beaten back after Soviet Far East Marshal Vasily Bluecher had hurled them in a major offensive to recapture...
While 1,500,000 Nazi youths and party functionaries staged the world's greatest political circus, the annual Nürnberg Parteitag (see p. 20), last week 750,000 Soviet youths were putting on their own show in Moscow. The occasion: the 24th observance of International Youth...
...with anxiety at all these developments last week. What the Great Exile was thinking was meanwhile mirrored by his landlord, Diego Rivera, who took time out from painting a mural for a Pittsburgh capitalist to issue awful warnings: "Lombardo Toledano has closely intertwined his fate with that of the Soviet oligarchy in the Kremlin. From there he receives instructions and all kinds of aid. For Moscow it is a question of transforming the workers' organizations of all America into an obedient instrument of Joseph Stalin...