Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exactly how grave are the "atrocities" reported perpetrated upon foreigners in Soviet Russia...
Finally the 40 man-eating wolves especially captured in Siberia, will battle to the death with 40 savage imperial borzois. . . . Educational, and instructive. . . . The first proletarian spectacle of its kind since Roman times. . . . Next day the Soviet news organ Isvestia sternly announced that no such "spectacle" would be permitted, quoted from the law forbidding prizefights in Russia "because the sport is not conducive to the invigoration of the working masses, but tends to arouse their baser emotions...
...Ministress was Mme. Alexandra Kollontay, onetime Soviet Russian Ministress at Oslo, Norwegian Capital. She appeared last week at Mexico City, clad in precisely the colors of male diplomatic attire, black and white. Instead of a "dress shirt" she wore a white crepe de chine blouse. Instead of a "dress tie" she wore a white crepe band around her black cloche hat. Instead of a "dress suit" she wore a black silk cape, and simulated the effect of diplomatic knee breeches by having her black silk dress fall barely below the knees...
Borodin. By this intemperate rampage the students greatly vexed that rugged, cautious, middle-aged Soviet Russian adviser to the South China Government, Michael Markovitch Borodin (TIME, Dec. 13). Though Adviser Borodin is a Communist and an atheist he quenches misguided, half-baked attempts to spread these doctrines...
Next day the Conservatives freed President Grinius, and forced him to call Professor Augustine Valdemaras (Conservative) to the Premiership. Antona Smetona, for some 20 years a tireless exponent of Lithuanian nationalism, thus halted by force last week the growing rapprochement with Soviet Russia which was the policy of the ousted Socialist Cabinet. Then, to make his coup "constitutional" he forced President Grinius to resign, and finally compelled the Seimas (Parliament) to assemble and elect him (Smetona) President...