Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hankow ("The Chicago of China"); then 600 miles down the Yangtze River to Shanghai ("The New York of China") and Nanking-was not primarily a great feat of arms. General Chiang had not yet developed many of his great qualities. He was almost an out-&-out puppet of the Soviet Union, but, as both Japan and Russia have found to their cost, no Chinese ever fully sells himself or China...
Conqueror Chiang immediately made friends with the Chinese businessmen of Shanghai, turned violently antiCommunist, massacred some 3,500 unimportant Shanghai Reds, permitted Propagandist Borodin and General Galen to "escape" to the Soviet Union. He later made Communism a capital crime. General Chiang's only son by his No. 1 wife, Chiang Ching-kuo, had by this time moved to Moscow, busied himself denouncing his father from Soviet platforms, became a Communist...
...Deputies elected to Russia's new parliament, the Supreme Soviet, official figures listed 855 as enrolled members of the Communist Party, 184 as women. All 1,143 are Stalinist Deputies, but the fact that 288 are not enrolled Communists was heavily emphasized by the official Russian press last week, hailed as "The Victory of the Bloc of Party and Non-Party Bolsheviki...
Several days afterward, when the world press had ceased front-paging the Soviet election, Moscow officials unobtrusively announced that 1,334,124 votes were "scratched"- that is, the name of the Stalinist candidate was struck out by voters. The further official admission was made that "more than 2,000,000 votes were also invalidated in other ways...
Since each ballot was printed with two names (the name of a candidate for the lower house and the name of a candidate for the upper house of the Supreme Soviet), the Government newsorgan Izvestia claimed that two scratched votes equaled only one scratched ballot-that is, one voter who balked at voting for the candidates put up by Mr. Stalin's friends...