Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary General of the Communist Party: Joseph Stalin...
...Balkans there was a tremor of fright like those involuntary shudders people are supposed to make when somebody walks over their future grave. The reason: the ordinary embassy military attachés accompanying the new Ambassador were loudly trumpeted as a "military commission." The fright: more evidence that Joseph Stalin was getting set to work with Germany if Poland was easily overrun. >Nobody paid much attention when Rumania rejoiced at Italy's neutrality, set to work strengthening her Eastern frontier, discussed a non-aggression pact with Hungary...
...shows of hands which took just two minutes to call and count, the Supreme Soviet "unanimously approved" the Hitler-Stalin deal...
With omnipotent J. Stalin sitting quietly by as a plain member of the presidium, Mr. Molotov got his laugh by suggesting that the Anglo-French emissaries asked for promises without themselves having the power to give any. "Frivolity," he called this...
Finally, said he, Stalin's men became convinced that Britain and France were actually encouraging Poland to reject Red Army aid! And they were trying to sick Russia on Germany by pretending that Hitler threatened to annex the Ukraine...