Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communists the world over, including those in the U. S., took a raincheck on revolution. Object: by joining a "united front" for capitalist democracy, to make the democracies allies of Soviet Russia against Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan. Last week world Communists, including those in the U. S., turned in the raincheck, came out from behind their false whiskers, and announced that they had just been fooling: they want their revolution after all. The new Communist name for revolution is "quick transition...
...Many Moscow residents listened in on the radio this morning expecting every moment to hear an announcement that Soviet troops had crossed the Finnish frontier," cabled the New York Times's Moscow Bureau last week. "In some respects Finland's situation closely resembles that of Czecho-Slovakia in September...
Instead of Adolf Hitler it was Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov who alternately cajoled and threatened, and instead of the Völkischer Beobachter it was the Communist Party official newsorgan Pravda ("Truth") that was out to whip up public indignation against the tiny "aggressor...
Russians were told that Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko had made a speech at Helsinki in which he denounced "Russian imperialism" and cried, "There is a limit to everything. Finland cannot accept the proposals of the Soviet Union and will defend her territory and her inviolability and independence by all means!" Pravda headlined its story ERKKO INCITES TO WAR!, editorialized that this speech "cannot be understood except as an appeal for war against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics." In Moscow only the diplomatic-journalistic colony was aware that Mr. Erkko never uttered the words quoted by Pravda...
Meanwhile in Moscow restaurants and on streetcars Soviet citizens could be heard remarking to each other with guffaws, "This Finn has gone mad. He is threatening to hurl a nation of 3,000,000 people against...