Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allied victory automatically nullified the Brest-Litovsk Treaty and the Ukrainian Republic, after a feeble struggle, folded up to become again a part of Russia. Ten years later Joseph Stalin, starting his collective-farming program, also found the Ukrainian peasant a stubborn creature. Confronted with similar sabotage, the Stalin Government simply confiscated the Ukrainian grain, left the peasants to starve. Some 3,000,000 of them...
...autonomy for Galicia. The Nazi agitation for redistribution of land is likely to appeal to impoverished, disenfranchised, long-suffering Galician peasants. The Polish feudal rulers, caught between Naziism in the West and Communism in the East, are more likely, when faced with a final choice, to choose Hitler than Stalin...
...very much the family man, but there is no evidence that Signora Mussolini or the several little Mussolinis have had any softening effect on his political methods or tempered his jowly egotism with a sense of humor. The most power-crazy and pitiless of all the iron-chewers, Stalin, has taken time off from purging to marry twice and beget a daughter,* still in her teens, but if his love for her has made him go down on his hands and knees and say "Woof, woof!", we are not getting the straight dope from Russia these days...
...trying to get all the Germans back in one nation, Führer Hitler had himself become the world's No. 1 International Revolutionist?so much so that if the oft-predicted struggle between Fascism and Communism now takes place it will be only because two revolutionist dictators. Hitler and Stalin, are too big to let each other live in the same world...
Adolf Hitler's Ukrainian "liberation movement" might find easy conquests in Poland and Rumania, but undoubtedly it will have tough going in Russia. Not only has Dictator Stalin a better army than Poland or Rumania, but long ago he took pains to silence if not kill all Ukrainians inclined to demand "extra rights." As one of "Tsar" Vladimir's entourage last week pungently expressed it: "This is all very well, but what will Mr. Stalin...