Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must be admitted that American Communist leaders are a rather clever lot. Otherwise they could never--even to their own satisfaction--have squared Soviet Russia's recent actions with their traditional attitude. Perhaps they did squirm a bit at the outset. But with time and some amazing intellectual acrobatics, they were able to produce an explanation--a proof of the logic and inevitability and complete orthodoxy of the whole business...
...pronouncements of the New Masses on the recent pact are a confounding structure of logical hair-splitting built upon a sweeping assumption as to the duplicity of all mankind--outside of the Bolsheviks. Let the editors tell you how Soviet Russia pled for a peace front with Britain and France. Let them further explain how the latter powers deliberately sabotaged the negotiations, using them merely as a card against Hitler; how they attempted to isolate Russia and maneuver her into a single-handed war with Hitler. In the light of this, Russia was forced into a rapprochment with the Nazis...
...Soviet Russia. Foreign envoys crossed the Dniester into Rumania; the Polish Government, which had holed up in Zaleszczyki on the frontier, hesitated, then fled into Rumania. Cut off from retreat on all sides, the Polish Army was disintegrating into guerrilla bands. While the Poles defended their capital, their country was overrun...
...ahead, infantry on slower trucks bringing up the rear. Conjunction of the west-moving Russian horde with the east-flowing Germans was awaited tensely. Would they embrace each other? Or would they quarrel over their prey? The answer soon came: the Nazi Air Force cooperated heartily with the Soviet spearheads to bomb and flatten even the slightest resistance...
...Sometimes they were self-consciously obscure, like Anton Refregier's timely Invasion, in which a trio of Hieronymus Bosch-like monsters seem not to know what to do with a Soviet flag...