Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most desirable first step toward Prosperity, he reported, is "to bring together as soon as possible ... in ... a pact of economic collaboration . . . the principal economic powers . . . France, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Germany and Italy." Not excluding the Soviet Union or Japan or China, but obviously alive to many practical difficulties, M. van Zeeland would simply make a pact "embracing the largest possible number of states, and in any case open...
...They were certain that 1,000,000 rifles had not just been passed out among the Chinese peasantry, an impossible fantasy which Chinese newsorgans gravely reported as a fact. Another wildly absurd claim which appeared in the Chinese press was that a 2,500-mile railroad between China and Soviet Russia would be completed within three months...
...first years of the Soviet Union, to escape from Russia was difficult and dangerous. Today it has become almost impossible, an attempt tantamount to suicide. Barbed and electrically charged wire, searchlight-equipped watch towers. 24-hour frontier patrols aided by bloodhounds and police dogs guard every mile of border. Therefore, excitement was great in Latvia last week when Victor Konarski, onetime Soviet port chief at Leningrad, made good his escape to Riga...
Comrade Konarski, although he had served four years and eight months of a five-year sentence at Wytschera Soviet...
Robert Louis Stevenson never saw a moving picture. He might not have liked Hollywood's version of his Treasure Island (1934). But he would have had a fit at what somebody had done to his unsexy story in the new Soviet film: transformed Cabin-boy Jim Hawkins into a pretty blonde. The guilty somebody was Boris Z. Shumiatsky, Will Hays of the Soviet cinema industry. Last week Boris Shumiatsky was out of a job. Other charges against him: 1) that in attempting to freight "a bourgeois adventure story" with significance he had introduced the Irish revolutionary movement without considering...