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...again committed Russia to world collaboration, with a special Russian interpretation: Russia's war sacrifices and victories justified all that Russia asked of the world; all combinations of nations outside the Soviet sphere were anti-Soviet; the United Nations Organization was not so much a world organization as an extension of the wartime Big Three...
This report was in keeping with the pattern of economic agreements already woven around Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Finland. If true in detail, it perhaps explained why the Russians could afford to permit the rise of vigorous political opposition throughout the Soviet sphere (TIME, Nov. 12). But, in itself, no economic scheme could guarantee that the opposition would stay within Russian bounds. The opposition parties had risen under the knouts of fear and want; they might continue to thrive, especially with encouragement...
There were signs that the Russians themselves, usually astute in such matters, had recognized the existence of a genuine, popular Opposition and were adjusting themselves to the facts of political life in their European sphere...
...gravitation of the Baltic nations to Russia is only the natural union at the Slavic peoples, and cannot be averted. If the western nations would keep out of Russia's sphere of influence in the Balkans and recognize that fact, the stability of Europe's politics would again be restored...
After 40 years, Japan had lost the rugged peninsula (as big as Great Britain) from which she had launched her Co-Prosperity Sphere. Soviet Russia had be come a power in the empire outpost which Tsarist Russia coveted...