Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floats in honor of Leftist Spain, and every important building in Madrid displayed the red, five-pointed star of Communism with the hammer & sickle or a portrait of Our Sun at its centre. Madrid's mayor renamed part of the famed Gran Via as the "Avenue of the Soviet Union" and from Barcelona Leftist War Minister Indalecio Prieto cabled "Congratulations to the Red Army...
According to Zarya Vostoka, the largest building at Sukhum on the Black Sea, the State Theatre, is now the scene of a propa ganda trial of 47 accused which is filling columns in all Caucasian newsorgans. According to the State prosecutor, President Nestor Lakoba of the Abkhaz Soviet Republic originated the conspiracy to assassinate Joseph Stalin in 1933 and the would-be assassins were disgruntled agents of the Dictator's own dread secret police, the Gay-pay-oo. They opened fire too soon on a launch carrying Stalin across Pitsunda Bay and it was able to veer away from...
Climaxing Moscow's celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Revolution was a gala preview of the Soviet film Lenin in October attended by Stalin. In this it is not Lenin & Trotsky who make the Revolution of 1917 but Lenin & Stalin. The historic role of Trotsky as creator of the Red Army and as the Soviet War Commissar who defeated the White Armies and saved the Revolution is entirely omitted, as are other Old Bolsheviks who have now been executed. Watching the film this week, Our Sun beamed to observe that Lenin, impersonated by ace Soviet Cinemactor Schchukin...
Typical of eulogies of Our Sun in Communist prints last week was the following, said to have been penned by a Soviet poet in the Kazak Republic...
...most flattering sign last week of Communist confidence in the ability of "Our Sun" to strike abroad came in no poem but in dispatches from Nanking. There officials close to the Soviet Embassy opined that Dictator Stalin is about to aid Dictator Chiang Kai-shek in a most ingenious way. In 1924, they recalled, Outer Mongolia broke away from Chinese sovereignty, began to revolve with the constellation of Soviet Republics, and has been heavily armed by Russia with battle planes, artillery, tanks. Outer Mongolia can now return to nominal Chinese sovereignty if Stalin pleases, thus carrying millions of dollars worth...