Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trial did not take long. The defendants, as is Communist custom, loudly pleaded guilty. Judge Ulrich gave out the verdict: "The court has established that the defendants were employed by the military secret service of a foreign government conducting an unfriendly policy against the Soviet Union. They . . . permitted wrecking acts intended to undermine the power of the Red Army and to prepare for . . . the defeat of the Red Army in event of an attack against it. ... The special court session found all eight guilty of violating their military oath, of treason to the Red Army and of treason...
...from the cap of Marshal Tukhachevsky, the four red pips from the collars of his colleagues, and all eight of them fell dead before the acrid volleys of a firing squad. Official Pravda wrote their obituary: "Dogs die like dogs. There is no place for such murderers in the Soviet scheme of things...
...suggest that any of the eight dead generals were Trotskyists. The charge was simply that they had sold information to a "foreign power." Japan and Germany are the only two powers conceivably in the market for Russian military secrets, and of these Nazi Germany is closest to Moscow. Anti-Soviet rumor factories in Warsaw, Riga and Berlin quickly spread stories of abortive Red Army mutinies in a dozen districts, bloody street riots, even the assassination of Nazi Ambassador Friedrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg...
...dance at the Exposition's international dance festival July 2. The Rockettes are the first U. S. dance troupe officially invited to appear in France. They will represent the U. S. on a program that includes such distinguished performers as La Scala Ballet, the Copenhagen Opera Ballet, the Soviet Ballet...
Died, Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, 59, favorite and last surviving sister of the late Nikolai Lenin, chief of the complaint bureau of the Soviet Control Commission; after several days' unconsciousness due to high blood pressure; in Moscow...