Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hankow, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, pleased with the Chinese success, encouraged by the continued inflow of Soviet tanks and warplanes, and gratified because his Kuomintang Party Congress concluded fortnight ago on a note of harmony with the Chinese Communists, was still cautious. "There is still a long way to go," admitted Chiang. "Let us not be proud or over-satisfied with preliminary success, or discouraged by temporary reverses! Let us fight with greater determination...
...Soviet justice has not been making much of a world reputation for itself lately. Significantly, the leading Moscow expert on Communist jurisprudence, Eugeni Pashukanis, was denounced by the official press last week as "a wrecker, a traitor and a betrayer of the Fatherland...
...declared to have obstructed "reforms" which the Dictator wishes to have made in the Soviet Criminal Code. Under one of these reforms "any member of a conspiracy will be criminally responsible for the acts of all, even acts of which this conspirator was completely ignorant...
...Soviet railway shop work is not going well, Chief of Railway Equipment Industries Lev Krivorotchenko was ousted last week, charged with "accepting deliberately falsified statistics on the production of locomotives in 1937." Since Lev Krivorotchenko was an ordinary locomotive engineer when he was promoted last year as one of Dictator Stalin's favorite "New Bolsheviks" to the head of the Soviet Union's entire railway equipment industry, it is logical that he had "accepted" statistics while learning what statistics...
Tokyo's live-wire, fast-growing Yominri, listed among the world's "great newspapers" in an Editor & Publisher survey, specializes in foreign news, spends heavily for scoops. Last week Yominri carried an exclusive story of eight Soviet Army officers in the Far East who decided to follow the example of two who recently escaped by airplane to Estonia, saying they had fled to avoid a purge in which hundreds of Soviet Army & Air Force officers are being secretly executed. According to Yominri, the plane in which the eight fled was chased by Soviet Secret Political Police aircraft...