Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard peace-propagating Sir Austen Chamberlain (see above) declare that relations would not be broken off with Soviet Russia...
...Trades Union Hall, Moscow, a huge blood-red disc above the stage, bearing the Hammer and Sickle, emblems of Soviet Russia, was hung. A vast crowd surged- peasants in blouses, urban workers in tight, shoddy store clothes. They had come to hear the first public speech in four months by Russia's greatest orator, famed Leon Trotzky. All knew that M. Trotzky had been silent perforce, following the crushing of his section of the Communist party by Dictator Josef Stalin (TIME, Oct. 25). When Comrade Trotzky slipped upon the stage last week, pale, wiry, magnetic, there was stamping, applause...
Then referring to the recent British note of protest and warning to Russia (TIME, March 7) he concluded: "It is not Britain who should have protested to us about anti-British propaganda, but we who should have protested to Britain about her anti-Soviet propaganda. The note complained that the Soviet press had caricatured Sir Austen Chamberlain as applauding the hanging of Lithuanian Communists. I say that he not only applauded, but also greased the ropes...
Peroration. Through an interpreter M. Kerensky, who speaks no English, said: "I do not think the agents of Soviet Russia are fomenting trouble in Mexico or elsewhere in foreign countries. They lack the power to do so. ... I, myself, never think of a return to power. My episode is over. But I am continuing and will continue until the last the struggle for human freedom. . . .* Russians must settle their own internal affairs...
...Denikin was driven from Ekaterinodar and fled to Constantinople. Baron Wrangel retreated to Sevastopol, lost it, and likewise fled-to turn up recently in Belgium, still "White" (TIME, Dec. 27). The "Red Terror," a series of extraordinary measures resorted to in time of stress, crystallized into the still active Soviet secret police...