Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, rumor had it that the German trade delegation in Moscow was running up against time-honored Soviet methods of delay and haggling. And the Nazis have yet to see even the first arrivals of the millions of tons of Russian foodstuffs promised fortnight...
...Most significant straws in the wind blew down from Moscow. To the often-asked question of "How much of an ally is Soviet Russia of Nazi Germany?" the answer came last week. "No ally at all." Dictator Joseph Stalin and Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov diplomatically kept mum on the subject, but the Kremlin's alter ego, the Communist International, was encouraged to handle the Nazis just about as roughly as French and British capitalists...
...plague-o'-both-your-houses" attitude. In a signed article in the quarterly Communist International, Tovarish Dimitroff performed the neatest logical trick of the week: he called Germany the original aggressor in World War II, said that after the Nazis signed their famed non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union the aggressors became France and Britain. The Comintern's spokesman laid down this Party line...
Count Potocki continued: "Like Germany, Soviet Russia was bound by a non-aggression agreement with Poland. Like Germany, she broke her solemnly pledged obligation...
MOSCOW--Negotiations on Russia's military and territorial demands against Finland came to a "definite end" tonight when the Finnish mission left for Helsinki and the Soviet press warned angrily that Finland is "on the brink of ruin...