Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boris Steiger, for 14 years the Soviet Foreign Commissariat's chief contact man with Moscow diplomats, a personal friend and frequent guest of the first U. S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., William Christian Bullitt, now Ambassador to France...
...Significance-In effect Abel Yenu-kidze was the Louis McHenry Howe of the Kremlin under Stalin. That he and such another old friend as Orakhelashvili, as well as so great a Soviet statesman as Karakhan, should be liquidated left the world but two plausible hypotheses to choose from: either Stalin is madly destroying his best friends, or they, like Trotsky, have come to believe that Stalin has betrayed the Revolution. In any case something is very rotten in Russia...
...which 40,000 have no telegraphic or even rail connection with Moscow, went ahead with feverish activity. It was belatedly announced that 94,138,000 Russians registered to vote and that at least 96.5% had voted. All votes counted for the Stalin regime, since only Stalinist candidates ran, and Soviet officials boasted that not a single ballot had come to light which seemed to have been scratched. On the contrary, millions of ballot envelopes when opened were found to contain not only the voter's name signed or printed but also such expressions as "I would give my life...
...result is 100 per cent-100 per cent!" exulted Pravda. "What election in what country for what candidate has given a 100-per cent response?" Soviet officials explained that in Russia, under Stalin's new "Most Democratic Constitution in the World," the urge to vote is so strong that at thousands of polling places crowds of voters waited through much of the previous night for the polls to open. These earliest comers were reported in most cases to be elderly men and women. Vigorous young Russians, confident of being able to shove through the crowds, mostly arrived "late"-that...
...speech against any candidate was reported made anywhere in the Soviet Union. However, the official Soviet press said last week that at Leningrad a citizen named Golubev was given seven years for "swearing at candidates." He only swore and so was let off easily. An opposition speech would have been "Trotskyism" or "wrecking," for which the legal penalty is death...