Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Repeated refusals to recognize the Russian Soviet Government until it reforms itself...
...recognition of her debts by Russia would return the sympathies of these poor people to the Soviet Union...
...Joffe, one of the greatest exponents of Bolshevik diplomacy, now Russian Minister to Austria, waxed contemptuous of a reported anti-Bolshevik league in the Balkans, hinted at war. warned against verbal sabre-rattlings: "Naturally, this Balkan shouting about the Bolshevist danger arouses great bitterness among the people of the Soviet Union and enhances the difficulties of reaching an understanding between the Soviet Government and the Balkan States...
Then I went for Pepeliayev. He, too, was dressed and sitting on his iron bed. He broke into convulsive sobs while listening to the death sentence. Having recovered his composure, he expressed surprise, declaring he had made peace with the Soviet regime and addressed a petition to the Central Executive Committee, asking for a reprieve. He begged us not to shoot him until the executive's reply came. I informed him this was impossible, and took him to join Kolchak...
...should stagger across the threshold of the Near East Orphanage at Alexandropol in the Soviet Republic of Armenia but Big Bill Haywood, Communist exile, wanted by the U. S. as an inmate of Leaven worth. He begged food, clothes, overnight shelter...