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7/16/1931, The Experiment of Bolshevism

4/13/1934, Stalin's Critics in Moscow

10/23/1937, Collectivization, Agriculture in Russia, Seven Years' Progress

4/14/1938, Soviet School Children Recruited as Police Agents

3/2/1939, Capitalist Exploitation of Soviet Russia

4/13/1939, Horrors Behind the Kremlin

9/28/1939, Soviet Government Moves to Exploit Possibilities Opened by War Between Germany & Western Allies

9/28/1939; Germans, Russians Divide Poland; Russians Take 60,000 Prisoners; Gestapo Executes Hundreds of Jews at Lodz

9/30/1939, Peace Move by Soviets & Germany, Polish Question Settled

10/3/1939, Russia Tightens Grip on Baltic

7/4/1940, Russia Follows Germany's Example of "Smash & Grab" at Expense of Weaker Neighbors

12/7/1943, Joint Communique Issued by Stalin-Roosevelt-Churchill After Teheran Conference

12/15/1943, Eden Reports on Recent Conferences, Allied Unity Stressed, Victory Will Be a Means to a Peace that Will Last

12/23/1943, Teheran Conference, Mr. Eden's Report, To the House of Commons

2/3/1944, Red Army One Mile from Estonia

2/3/1944, Demographics, Economy, & Topography of Estonia

8/26/1944, Russians Capture Moldavia Capital

2/28/1945, Crimea Conference Finds Allies More Closely United than Ever Before

3/8/1945, Yalta Conference, Churchill's Statement, Poland's Future

1/11/1949, Soviet Terror in the Baltics

9/2/1949, Estonia Under the Russian Yoke

9/2/1949, Tactics of the Trojan Horse in Estonia

11/10/1949, Progress of Russification in Estonia

4/20/1950, Stalin's Biography Required Reading

5/4/1950, Soviet Estonian Kolkhozniks

6/17/1950, The Red Hue Over Poland

8/20/1950, Progress of the Purge in Estonia

4/12/1951, History of Estonia

4/26/1951, Economic Innovations in the U.S.S.R.

7/20/1951, Signs of Resistance in Poland

8/2/1951, Russification of the Baltic States

11/4/1951, Peasant Revolt in Kazakhstan Suppressed

4/10/1952, Newspapers of Estonia

4/24/1952, Estonia's Industry

6/17/1952, Communism in Asia

10/9/1952, Estonia Behind the Iron Curtain

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[James A Pratt III]

Good posts! for more information on how the press and others reported what was going on in the USSR you might want to look through the book:
Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest

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Thanks James. I would also recommend Robert Tucker, Simon Sebag Montefiore, and Gabriel Gorodetsky (Grand Delusion.)

6/3/1923, Polish Priests Given Death Sentences Under Bolshevik Penal Code for Imparting Religious Teachings to Anyone Under 18

12/2/1926, Cheka Chief Felix Dzerzhinsky Dies Suddenly, Credited with 1,572,718 Executions Between 1917-1921

Note: Bolshevik revolutionaries used mass executions by firing squads to intimidate locals and facilitate outward expansion from Moscow during the early consolidation of the Soviet Union.

7/27/1926, Cheka (Soviet Political and Security Police) Execute 1,834,000 People

7/31/1926, Polish Officer Escapes Cheka Firing Squad

6/27/1940; Rumania Agrees to Russian Ultimatum, Cedes Bessarabia & Northern Bukovina to Soviet Union, Part 1

6/27/1940; Rumania Agrees to Russian Ultimatum, Cedes Bessarabia & Northern Bukovina to Soviet Union, Part 2

8/26/1949, Communist Tactics in Estonia

9/7/1950, Officers of the Estonian Guards Rifle Corps Disappear After Being Stationed in Russia in 1941

11/9/1950, Record of Stalin's Bestialities in Estonia

11/16/1950, The NKVD in Estonia, 1940-41

11/23/1950, Estonia in 1940-41

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10/12/1860, Massacres in Syria: Wives & Orphans of Victims Escape in Caravans from Damascus, Turks Provide Conveyance

6/19/1919, The Soviet Constitution

8/12/1936, The New & Improved Soviet Constitution

9/21/1939, Stalin Wastes Little Time in Collecting First Installment for Alliance with Hitler, Part 1

9/21/1939, Stalin Wastes Little Time in Collecting First Installment for Alliance with Hitler, Part 2

2/7/1944, Soviets Amend Constitution to Allow Border Republics to Conduct Their Own Foreign Policy

5/19/1945, Liberated Poland, Land of the Missing, Only 300,000 Jews Remain of Original 3,500,000, Part 1

5/19/1945, Liberated Poland, Land of the Missing, Only 300,000 Jews Remain of Original 3,500,000, Part 2

8/5/1949, Four Years of American Occupation in South Korea Ends, Trigger-Sensitive Koreans Face Each Other Along 38th

8/8/1949, Chinese Communists Threaten to Seize Formosa

6/29/1950, Communists Throughout Asia Have Taken the Initiative

12/18/1950, British Troops in Korea Bitterly Resentful of Mass Executions of Accused Communists Staged by South Korea

12/29/1950, Ho Chi-Minh's Communists in Indochina Conduct Barbaric Slaughter Against French Civilians & Locals

1/7/1951, Answers About Korea & China

7/7/1952, China & the Road to World Communism, Part 1

7/7/1952, China & the Road to World Communism, Part 2

7/9/1977, Cambodia: A Country Ruled by Fear

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3/4/1939, Former Soviet Leaders Charged with Wrecking, Sabotage, & Terrorism on Behalf of Poland, Germany, Britain, & Japan

11/12/1938, Molotov Declares Red Army Largest in World & Ready to Repel Invasions Being Prepared by Germany & Japan

11/12/1938, Hitler May Soon Embark on Seizing the Ukraine for Economic Exploitation

Hyperwar, Ibiblio.org; War Department Technical Manual TM-E 30-451, German Military Handbook, 3/15/1945

10/1/1939, Stalin Reports on Current State of Red Army

5/8/1946; Breach Between National China & Communist China Appears to Be Healing, but Danger Lurks in Background

5/18/1946, Opposition Banned in Soviet Elections

7/25/1946, Russia in the Pacific

9/3/1946, Poland & Palestine

9/12/1946, Communists Stirring Up Chinese to Fight Against Priests

9/24/1947; Professor Einstein Writes Open Letter to U.N., Requests Delegates Convert General Assembly to World Parliament

2/29/1948; Communists Riot in South Korea, Attacking Police & Public Officials; 25 Police Stations Stormed

5/3/1948, North Korea Adopts New Constitution Claiming Jurisdiction Over All Korea

11/4/1948, American Source Believes U.S. Must Help China or It Will Fall to Communism, Nationalists Falling Back

12/31/1948, Berlin Blockade, Indonesia Conflict, & Communists vs. Nationalists Struggle in China Dominate 1948 News

1/18/1949, Flour & Wheat to Nationalist China Cut Off by U.S. to Prevent Shipments from Falling into Communist Hands

7/26/1949, Jews Being Purged from Prominent Positions in Russia, Many Deported to Labor Camps in Siberia

9/10/1949, South Korea Military & Police Alerted for Sept. 20 When North Korea Holds Elections in "Both North & South Korea"

6/27/1950, War in Korea Biggest Surprise Since Pearl Harbor, 'Could Be Danger' Says Truman, Emergency Conference Called

6/27/1950, Soviets May Boycott U.N.

6/28/1950, U.S. Enters Korean War, Radio Link Between Seoul & Tokyo Cut, U.S. War Planes Attacking N. Korean Tanks, Part 1

6/28/1950, U.S. Enters Korean War, Radio Link Between Seoul & Tokyo Cut, U.S. War Planes Attacking N. Korean Tanks, Part 2

6/29/1950, N. Korean Spearheads Capture Seoul, Suwon Evacuated, Communists Begin Broadcasting from Seoul Radio

7/3/1950, Chinese Communists in Manchuria Move 200,000 Troops to North Korean Border

4/2/1975, Last Refugee Ship from Da Nang

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1/30/1937, Germans Express Surprise that Four of 16 Defendants at Moscow Treason Trial Escape Death Sentences

6/12/1937; Eight Soviet Generals Confess to Treason & Found Guilty, Must Be Shot in 24 Hours I.A.W. with "Kirov Law"

3/9/1938, Medical Experts at Moscow Trial Back Evidence that Ex-Police Chief Yagoda Engaged in Medical Murder, Part 1

3/9/1938, Medical Experts at Moscow Trial Back Evidence that Ex-Police Chief Yagoda Engaged in Medical Murder, Part 2

3/11/1938, Eighteen of 21 Defendants in Moscow Treason Trial Given Death Sentences, Former Police Chief Guilty

12/8/1938, Soviet Political-Purge Hero Yezhov Gives Up Post of Commissar of Internal Affairs Due to Ill Health

3/1/1939, Indications Are Yezhov Now in Disgrace, Yezhov Was Appointed Commissar of Chiefs After Work in Ukraine

11/5/1941, Ambassador Davies' Notes from Moscow Treason Trials Reveal Stalin's Amazing Farsightedness

11/8/1941, Red Army Stages Parade in Red Sq. on Anniversary of Russian Revolution as German Blitz Approaches Moscow

10/25/1946, Stalin's Doomsday Book of Mass Murder, Ex-Editor of Daily Worker Collates List of Liquidated Communists

9/23/1949, Truman Reports that Russians Have Successfully Tested an Atomic Bomb, Part 1

9/23/1949, Truman Reports that Russians Have Successfully Tested an Atomic Bomb, Part 2

9/23/1949, Soviets Have Long Been Hinting They Have Broken Secret of A-Bomb, Beria in Charge of Research

9/25/1949, Soviets Say They Solved Atomic Secret in '47, Reports of Blasts in U.S.S.R. Due to Infrastructure Projects

10/12/1949, Russians Veto U.N. Proposal to Inventory Arms Because There's No Provision for Inventorying World Nukes

8/7/1953, Twelve High North Korean Officials Prosecuted for Planning to Overthrow Government & Spying for U.S.

8/12/1953, Purge in N. Korea Climaxes Power Struggle Between Pro-Russian, Pro-Chinese, & Ultra-Nationalist Factions

12/18/1953, Ex-Soviet Police Chief Lavrenti Beria to Face Treason Trial After Confessing to High Treason

12/24/1953, Beria & 6 Aids Shot After 6-Day Trial, Beria Guilty of Attempting to Establish Capitalism in U.S.S.R., Part 1

12/24/1953, Beria & 6 Aids Shot After 6-Day Trial, Beria Guilty of Attempting to Establish Capitalism in U.S.S.R., Part 2

7/23/1954, Beria's Henchman Executed by Firing Squad for Forcing Doctors to Confess to Plotting to Kill Soviet Officials

2/8/1967, Mass Purges in China Devour Makers of Communist Revolution in Same Fashion as Bolshevik Revolution

1/23/1968, N. Korea Seizes U.S. Spy Ship, Armed Party Boards Pueblo After It Was Surrounded by Gunboats, Part 1

1/23/1968, N. Korea Seizes U.S. Spy Ship, Armed Party Boards Pueblo After It Was Surrounded by Gunboats, Part 2

1/23/1968, B-52s Strike N. Viets Threatening Khe Sanh Valley, U.S. 1st Air Cav Division Moved to Forward Positions

1/24/1968, U.S. Carrier Task Force Heads for Korean Waters, Some Congressmen Call Pueblo Seizure Act of War, Part 1

1/24/1968, U.S. Carrier Task Force Heads for Korean Waters, Some Congressmen Call Pueblo Seizure Act of War, Part 2

1/24/1968; N. Viets Shell Marine Base at Khe Sanh with Rockets, Mortars, & 152mm Artillery; Red Buildup Continues

1/30/1968, Viet Cong Launch Biggest Drive of Viet War; Red Guerrillas Stage Precision Attacks Against Five U.S. Air Bases

12/10/1969, The Purge of Hue, Cadres with Clipboards Summoned Social Leaders to 10-Minute Public Trials & Execution

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