Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the War, Germany has been enduring the birth-pangs of a new political order. Reaction against the Hohenzollerns threatened to throw the nation, with Russia, into the Soviet regime. Then from Bavaria sprang the counter-reaction that has fought persistently against the new republican government. Some of the chief war leaders have been the nominees of this party. Its fortunate failure was symbolized in this last election by the total of four votes cast for Emperor William...
...said M. Moukbil, "in order to protect herself against the aggressions of a Russo-Franco-British entente which was planning to take Constantinople and the coasts of the Black Sea to give to Imperial Russia. This is substantiated by documents from the Russian archives recently made public by the Soviet Government...
...wounded but killed, since otherwise we shall simply be making a mess of things." He and other comrades, Neumann said, had also discussed ways and means of killing the late Hugo Stinnes, because the Cheka had ordered his "elimination." He admitted having received personally $1,000 from the Soviet Embassy in Berlin, in addition to $25,000 for the purchase of arms; and estimated the total amount disbursed by the Embassy at $200,000. He also testified that "one Lou" had introduced him to "one Eve" who had supplied him with typhoid and dysentery bacilli...
...short while ago, Norway upheld its dry law in a general election. France has placed all radio under the censorship of the police. Smoking has been prohibited in Mecca, the Holy City of the Moslems. In Russia the soviet commissar of health has issued an edict against kissing. Not only is the usual form of this indoor sport forbidden, the kissing of ladies' hands by men is also taboo. The practice is doubly accursed, being both unhygienic and bourgeois. Handshaking, too, has been prohibited in many departments...
...because the majority of the Russian people understand that form of government better than any other. I do not know when it will be, but there are signs of the Soviet regime breaking up now through the internal Struggle among the Communists...