Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Osoaviakhim is the name of a vast Russian organization the job of which is to build up the Soviet's military reserves by training civilians and youths of pre-military age in such things as parachuting, aviation and chemical defense. "Enemies of the People" have wormed their way even, into this holy of holies. Declared Na Strazhe, Osoaviakhim's official organ, "Every enemy must be revealed...
...Kuznetsk Basin in 1935, discovered that a number of their employes had spent 1,300,000 rubles (about $260,000) on drilling two wells where there was obviously not a chance of finding oil. Eleven more railway wreckers, said to be working for Japan, were shot at Khabarovsk, Soviet Asia-bringing May's bag of executed spies in the Far East up to 66. Russian-born U. S. citizens were refused visas to visit the Soviet Union seemingly for fear that some of them might be admirers of exiled Leon Trotsky...
...became head of all political work in the Red Army, was given the special title of "Military Commissar of the First Rank" when, in 1935, five generals were raised to the newly created rank of Marshal. After his death it was officially revealed that he was "connected with anti-Soviet elements...
Cross-examination waxed so heated that spectators left their seats, circled the defense attorney and the plaintiff as questions disclosed that the check was a routine interest payment on $9,998 of Soviet bonds which Dr. Freeman had purchased for his mother's estate; that Dr. Freeman had been Boston-born Abram Ellis Friedman until he changed his name in 1923 "because I thought it stood as a handicap".; that Dr. Freeman believed "to talk about God, you must first create an image, and then talk about the image you have created"; that Dr. Freeman in his book Social...
...unfortunate war victims . . . might easily be used for propaganda purposes by groups actively seeking sympathy for the Communist-Socialist regime of the Madrid-Valencia government. This crafty scheme is clearly an attempt to becloud an issue the truth of which Americans are at last learning, namely, that the Soviet-supported 'Loyalist' regime, in order to deceive the world of its real anti-Christian objective, is trying to make out that Franco's government is anti-Catholic because the Rebels are seeking to break up the unnatural and tragic alliance of the Basques with the Madrid Leftists...