Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfortified centres of population . . . has sickened the hearts of every civilized man and woman and has profoundly shocked the conscience of humanity." He requested an immediate reply from both countries. At his press conference the President went further, read in a grave, strained voice: "The news of the Soviet naval and military bombings within Finnish territory has come as a profound shock to the Government and people of the United States. Despite efforts made to solve the dispute by peaceful methods to which no reasonable objection could be offered, one Power has chosen to resort to force of arms...
...Baltic Gibraltar." Finland's little fleet, centred around the shallow-draft pocket-battleships Vainamoinen and Ilmarinen moved cautiously to meet them. An attempted landing was repelled at Porvoo. When the Red ships came within range, the fortress at Russarö guarding Hangö opened fire. One Soviet destroyer was reported sunk, one damaged and the new cruiser Kirov so badly punched astern that she had to be towed into Tallinn...
MOSCOW--The Soviet Government tonight officially repudiated as "not in accordance with Soviet policy" an article in the Communist International, official organ of the Comintern, advising Rumania to agree immediately to a mutual aid pact with the Soviet Union...
...statement of repudiation, issued by the Foreign Office press bureau, said that neither the assertions of the mouth place of world Communism nor the interpretations placed upon them abroad represent the Soviet Government's views...
...hangman in the Kremlin has yanked the trap door from under the feet of those die-hard idealists who thought that the new Russia was a religion, a state transecuded by a burning desire to bring peace on earth, good will to men. Soviet Russia, these disillusioned folk know now, is as lustful and cruel as her neighbors. Like her neighbors, she must look first of all to her own security and power. Nations have always committed murder and rape while quoting the Bible or the Declaration of Independence. But while France and England can fight to save their empires...