Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that my son suffered from a chronic intestinal disease," complained Trotsky from his Mexican refuge. "I don't have direct data that the death of L. Sedov is the handiwork of the GPU [Soviet secret police]. . . . At the disposal of the GPU there are very exceptional scientists and technical means, which makes the problem of medical examination very difficult...
...through two marriages, the second apparently never publicly recorded, has had four children, now all dead or imprisoned. Daughter Nina died in Russia in 1928, Daughter Zinaida committed suicide in Berlin in 1933 after the Russian arrest of her husband, elder Son Leon died last week and Son Sergei, Soviet engineer, was "arrested" year ago, has not been heard of since...
...Army plane, chased by other Soviet craft and fired at by Soviet frontier guards, skimmed across the border and came down last week in southern Estonia. Out climbed Soviet Lieutenants Vladimir Umishevsky and Nikolai Gurjev, ashen-faced. After a three-hour flight from Luga, south of Leningrad, their gasoline was exhausted and they had just got across the frontier. They told that Joseph Stalin was purging the Red Air Force, that hundreds of Soviet military pilots had mysteriously vanished in Russia, that they had chosen the desperate risk of flight...
Month ago when the Soviet Government asked the British Government to remove its consulate from Leningrad, the British, who do not like to be dictated to, quietly announced that hereafter the only place in Russia where anyone could get a British visa would be at His Britannic Majesty's consulate in Leningrad. Last week, the Russians, who also do not like to be dictated to, again asked for the closing of the British consulate in Leningrad. "Under protest" Britain acceded, thereby shutting off the only source of British visas for all except diplomats, who can get them from...
...same time the reason for Soviet persistence became known. Russia is clearing all consulates out of Leningrad (the U. S. has no consulate there) so that foreigners will find it unsafe to linger in that Baltic port where she plans to launch a naval building program in secrecy. The U. S. S. R. already has the world's largest army-1,300,000 men-and last week new-Navy Commissar Peter A. Smirnov declared at Moscow: "We are going to build not only the best but also the biggest navy in the world...