Word: soviets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...review the progress of the past year the Central Executive Committee, the highest organ of the Soviet Government, met in the Uritsky Palace, Leningrad, which, as St. Petersburg and later Petrograd, was the capital of Russia under the Tsars...
...Soviet philosophy allows no restraint to be put on children. Even in the schools a student studies only those subjects he fancies. These wolflike boys and girls, all about the age of 13 or 14, are thus allowed to prey upon society because they prefer to prey and to roam the country, although homes have been provided for them and some 1,900,000 have thus been taken care of, taught trades, etc. But the homes are evidently not all they are supposed to be, for recently the head of one institution was arrested because he placed iodine...
Silk-hatted, frock-coated, begloved, bespatted M. Bogomolov arrived in Warsaw to present his credentials to Polish President Ignatz Moscicki as Soviet Minister to Poland. A company of Polish soldiery accompanied the new envoy to the presidential palace...
Four months ago (TIME, June 20) Soviet Minister Peter Lazarevitch Vojkov was felled in a Warsaw railway station by the foul hand of a boy assassin. Due note of that fact was emphasized by the arrival of M. Bogomolov, who symbolizes a return of normal Russo-Polish relations, after a period of horror struck deep in Russia by political and revengeful executions, and in Poland by a period of intense excitement uncalmed by the sentence of the aforesaid boy assassin to life imprisonment with a recommendation by the Court that this be commuted to 15 years...
...manifesto in question accused Ahmed Zogu of crass tyranny and attempted to show that he was the creature of Britain and Italy, with the latter of whom he signed the much-criticized Treaty of Tirano (TIME, Dec. 17, 1926). The document also advocated a Soviet regime as being the only means of freeing the "enslaved" people...