Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forces, and it appeared that an "ultimatum" time limit of some sort had been attached to the Polish demands on Lithuania, although if there had been a definite limit events showed that it was later extended. Amid a world-wide eruption of ill-considered headlines it was suggested that Soviet Russia might give Lithuania armed aid against Poland, but a glance at the geographical situation showed that the Red Army could not reach Lithuania without first invading Poland or Latvia. In less than 48 hours the Lithuanian Government, through their Minister at Tallin, Estonia, handed to the Polish Minister...
...Rykov, Bukharin, former Chief of Ogpu Yagoda, Finance Commissar Grinko, former President of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Khodzhaev, former All-Union Foreign Trade Commissar Rozengolts, former All-Union Agriculture Commissar Chernov, former All-Union Timber Chief Ivanov, former All-Union Cooperative Stores Chief Zelensky, former All-Union First Assistant Foreign Commissar Krestinsky, former Kremlin Hospital Chief Dr. Levin, Endocrinologist Dr. Kazakov, the late Maxim Gorki's secretary Kruchkov, and the lesser Communists Ikramov, Sharangovich, Zubarev, Bulanov and Maximov-Dikovsky...
...Former Soviet Ambassador to Britain & France Rakovsky (20 years); the greatest Soviet physician and "renowned European heart specialist," Professor Pletnev (25 years); former Counselor of Soviet Embassy in Berlin Bessonov (15 years...
...been to sever the vital east-west lifeline of central China, the Lunghai Railway defended by the so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line." The Lunghai Railway connects (via the Peking-Hankow line) Chiang Kai-shek's capital at Hankow with Sian, capital of Communist-held Shensi and source of Soviet supplies coming in from Outer Mongolia. The Japanese force cut this link at Szeshui last week, but made no further advance after crossing the river. Chinese were reported to have blown up dikes along the Yellow River, flooding the countryside and thus blocking Japanese mechanized forces...
Yugoslavia is one of the few European states which does not recognize the Soviet Union and encourages militant White Russians to colonize in Yugoslavia. "Yugoslavia does not adhere to any ideological bloc," concluded Europe's No. 1 Optimist last week, "but will continue to support the League of Nations...