Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aranda to the Sea! If the Leftist flight in the Pyrenees sector continues, the Rightists will soon have detached Leftist Spain from France, cut off the flood of French and Soviet munitions through France. This is Rightist Objective No. 1, would almost certainly decide the war. Last week Rightist Objective No. 2 was to complete the drive to the sea and definitely cut Leftist Spain in twain, although to all intents & purposes Generalissimo Francisco Franco accomplished this when Italian Fascist Militia fought down the Ebro River Valley, besieged the town of Tortosa (TIME, April...
...bullet-riddled body of Ignace Reiss, a Soviet secret agent who renounced Stalinism, was found in a ditch outside Lausanne, Switzerland, seven months...
Citing the above instances and others last week, Great Exile Leon Trotsky dispatched a letter to the juridical section of the League of Nations Secretariat charging that a centralized "mafia" of Soviet terrorists, like the famed Sicilian terrorist society, is now operating in Europe, killing and kidnapping opponents of the Stalinist regime. Trotsky demanded that a League tribunal be set up for investigation of these terroristic activities...
Since Iran was bent on proving her independence, lean pickings were in store for British advisers, British business. Ships were ordered from Italy and Italian officers were engaged to teach Iranian landlubbers theories of navigation. Barter trade was established with Soviet Russia and German goods began to pour into Iran under a clearing agreement arranged by the wily Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. Among the first arrivals were 100 German warplanes for the Iranian air force. Danes. Czechs...
...revolution period has been the Soviet cinema's favorite topic, but it has never before presumed to characterize its now-deified hero. Actor Shchukin's profile is Lenin's to the eyelash. From biographies, letters, newsreels and associates of Lenin he got Lenin's impatient, nervously-energetic demeanor down pat. In the film he thumbs his vest, shifts uneasily whenever he has to stay seated, drives his points home with emphatic coordination of forefinger, whiskers and narrowed eyes. Not so free with his gestures is the unnamed player who portrays Stalin. Like the actor who played...