Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above all, what of Soviet Russia? Far north in her bloody seclusion, she seems to the Vagabond to be resting, waiting, watching; perhaps she is to play the role of Phillip of Macedon who too watched and waited while his neighbors exhausted themselves with incessant warfare. Like Phillip she may be waiting for one last destructive war, waiting for the moment to swoop down from the north, destroy her foolish, petty, squabbling neighbors, and build a new civilization on the ruins...
Fantastic? Perhaps, the Vagabond reflects. But who knows? Who really knows? Certainly all he can do is to wonder, to guess, to imagine; but in the meantime he plans to go to Harvard 1 this noon to hear Professor Bruce Hopper lecture on "The relations of Soviet Russia with Europe and America...
...human affairs it sometimes happens in efforts to save lives that more lives are lost than those originally at stake. That is what happened last fortnight to Soviet Russia. In the jumbled waste of pack ice east of Greenland four scientists were dangerously drifting on their "'station," a floe which was in constant danger of breaking up (TIME, Feb. 14). For nine months, as they were carried by sea currents southward from the Pole, they had made observations in Arctic meteorology, oceanography, magnetology and marine biology. To help with the rescue, the semirigid dirigible V6 started out from Moscow...
...third icebreaker not yet insight: ". . . Wewerenot anxious for a moment about our fate because we knew that our mighty fatherland which sent forth its sons would never desert them. The warm care and attention of the party and government of dear Comrade Stalin, of the whole Soviet people, uninterruptedly maintained in us the conviction to accomplish successfully all our work...
...Soviet posters and pictures of Stalin were stuck up by the Communists. Under its architect-director, Manuel Sanchez Areas, the Propaganda Ministry proceeded to cry down these vagaries with official posters exhorting civilians to evacuate Madrid, to bring food to Madrid, to be vaccinated, to stop talking and get down to business. All in all, no less than 4,000,000 posters have been printed in the lithographers' shops of Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona...