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    "ocrText": "34 TRENDS IN RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY SINCE WORLD WAR I\nTRENDS IN RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY SINCE WORLD WAR I\n35\n\"in violation of the letter and spirit of the Atlantic Charter\" to\nApril 25-United Nations Conference on International Organization\nsettle the question.\nopens in San Francisco.\nFebruary 13-Red Army occupies Budapest.\nApril 26-Molotov insists on rotating chairmanship of the four\nFebruary 18-Pravda accuses China of lagging in its war effort.\nsponsoring powers at San Francisco Conference.\nFebruary 27-Churchill defends Polish boundary settlement and\nApril 27-San Francisco Conference grants separate votes to White\naccepts Stalin's pledge that Russia has no designs on Poland's\nRussia and the Ukraine but rejects Russian request to admit\nindependence.\nPolish provisional government.\nMarch 1-Moscow radio broadcasts violent attack on Turkish Gov-\nApril 29-Moscow announces establishment of provisional govern-\nernment in Turkish language.\nment in Vienna under Dr. Karl Renner.\nMarch 8-U. S. S. R. and Dominican Republic establish diplomatic\nApril 30-Russians hoist flag above ruined Reichstag in Berlin.\nrelations.\nApril 30-Argentina is admitted to United Nations Conference in\nMarch 15-Venezuela and U. S. S. R. establish diplomatic relations.\nSan Francisco despite Soviet opposition.\nMarch 19-Molotov denounces Soviet-Turkish treaty of 1925.\nMay 7-Molotov declares that major Allies have reached \"una-\nMarch 21-Moscow radio warns of danger of giving equal voting\nnimity\" on the nature of the new world-security organization.\nrights to small nations in Security Organization.\nMay 9-War in Europe ends.\nMarch 21-Polish National Council in London is dissolved.\nMay 11-Soviet Union proposes that it become a permanent member\nMarch 23-War and the Working Class states that British, French,\nof projected Trusteeship Council of the UN and that the goal for\nRussian, and Czech peoples had suffered too much to put all their\ncolonial peoples should be \"full national independence.\"\nhope in a security organization and would have to depend on bi-\nMay 11-Partial reconversion of Soviet industrial system begins\nlateral treaties.\nwith plans to increase consumer goods.\nMarch 30-Russians capture Danzig and raise Polish flag over the city.\nMay 20-General Bocek of Czechoslovakia announces that Soviet\nMarch 31-Tass supports inclusion of Polish provisional government\nUnion will arm and train new Czech Army.\nin San Francisco Conference, but United States and Britain join in\nMay 22-Lend-lease shipments to Russia through March 31, 1945,\nrefusing admission.\nare revealed to total $8,410,000,000.\nApril 2-Brazil and U. S. S. R. establish diplomatic relations.\nMay 23-Soviet Government assures Denmark that Red Army\nApril 5-U. S. S. R. denounces Soviet-Japanese neutrality pact.\noccupation of Bornholm will continue only until war issues have\nApril 8-Soviet government affirms that its aim in Austria is neither\nbeen solved.\nterritorial acquisition or change in the social system.\nMay 29-U. S. S. R. agrees to admission of Denmark to the San\nApril --Program of new government of Czechoslovakia stresses close\nFrancisco Conference.\nand unbreakable alliance with Russia.\nMay 30-Iran requests withdrawal of American, British, and Soviet\nApril 8-Moscow radio demands economic, political, and military\ntroops.\ndisarmament of Germany and reparation for latter's victims.\nJune 2 - Russian delegation demands that great powers on Security\nApril -Yugoslavia and U. S. S. R. sign 20-year treaty of friendship,\nCouncil have right to veto discussion of international disputes.\nmutual aid, and postwar cooperation.\nJune 5-In Berlin, supreme commanders of the four Allies announce\nApril 12-President Roosevelt dies.\nassumption of joint control and supreme authority over Germany.\nApril 13-Soviet forces take Vienna.\nJune -Following American request, Stalin instructs Soviet delegate\nApril 14-Stalin agrees to request from President Truman to send\nat San Francisco to abandon demand for veto over discussions in\nMolotov to San Francisco Conference.\nSecurity Council.\nApril 15-OWI issues magazine Amerika in the Russian language in\nJune 7 -Truman rejects French-Russian suggestion that Big Five\nMoscow.\nConference settle Syrian question.\nApril 16-Lublin provisional Polish government and U. S. S. R. reach\nJune 23-Supreme Soviet votes to demobilize the 13 senior age groups\nagreement on frontier question.\nof Red Army.\nApril 18-Bolivia and U. S. S. R. establish diplomatic relations.\nJune 8-Conference of Lublin and London Poles in Moscow results\nApril 19-United States refuses second Polish request that the Lublin\nin formation of provisional national government. with Osubka-\nprovisional government of Poland be invited to the San Francisco\nMorawski as Premier and Mikolajczyk as Deputy Premier.\nconference.\nJune 24-Zhukov declares Red Army is strongest in the world and\nThe American view was that an invitation should be extended\nthat Soviet Union played main role in defeating Germany.\nonly to a new provisional government of national unity in accord-\nJune 25 -London Times reports U. S. S. R. asks preferential position\nance with the Crimea agreement.\nin control of Dardanelles and return of districts of Ardahan and\nApril 19-Guatemala and U. S. S. R. establish diplomatic relations.\nKars from Turkey.\nApril 21-Poland and U. S. S. R. sign 20-year treaty of friendship,\nThe U.S.S. R. was said to have made these demands as a condi-\nmutual assistance, and postwar cooperation.\ntion for the revival of the Soviet-Turkish treaty of friendship.\nApril 25-American troops contact Red Army for first time on Elbe\nAdditional requests on June 27 were reported to include joint\nRiver, northeast of Leipzig.\nSoviet-Turkish defense of the Straits and rectification of some\nfrontier areas in favor of the Balkan States."
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