Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Demands. The war-ready Finns took pride in moving with snail-like slowness at the crack of Joseph Stalin's demand that they send a delegation to Moscow (TIME, Oct. 16). Instead of coming by air, as the panicky envoys of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have done, Finnish Chief Delegate Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi rolled comfortably into Moscow by train one morning. At 2:30 p.m. Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov received U. S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt who brought from President Roosevelt a personal message of "earnest hope that nothing may occur that would be calculated to affect...
...Communists outside Russia have performed one verbal trapeze act after another. Particularly embarrassed by the Stalin-Hitler handshaking was British Communist Party Secretary Harry Pollitt, a stocky 48-year-old man long known as the British Party's "ablest propagandist and spokesman." Although he had long praised the Soviet Union, defended Dictator Stalin's frequent purges and written powerful pieces against Fascist aggressions, Secretary Pollitt could not see his way to follow the new "party line...
...ruling class of this country are on the horns of an historical dilemma. The millionaires of Britain are afraid of peace and are afraid of war. . . . They fear the growing strength of the peaceful Soviet Union which remains outside the imperialist war camp...
Brawny jack-tars of the Red Navy this week entered the harbor of Tallinn, Estonia's capital, on a hulking grey-snouted cruiser and ten smaller Soviet warships. To statesmen this was grim business, the physical establishment of the Red Navy on a base dominating Estonia and commanding the Gulf of Finland in accordance with the treaty which Dictator Stalin recently forced Estonia to sign (TIME, Oct. 16), but for the sailors it was a lark, an adventure into the strange world of Capitalism...
They crowded to the rails, rubbernecking eagerly as the towers of the City Hall came into view, and then the long, squat shipbuilding yards and factories of Tallinn. Like Cook's Tour lecturers, Communist political commissars on the Soviet warships pointed out the sights, reminded Red Navy tars that in Tallinn once lived that popular Old Bolshevik gaffer Mikhail Kalinin who today is frontman for secretive Joseph Stalin in the role of Soviet President. "Look there, comrades!" cried the political commissar, "Over there you can see where Mikhail Ivanovich once worked as a mechanic...