Word: antifascist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Epstein plans to work with organizations including the Youth Antifascist League of Russia and a student television network run out of the Journalism Department at Moscow State University...
...doesn't have to read the play as an antifascist allegory to feel its impact as an old-fashioned protest drama, which scores like a young heavyweight with no footwork but a crushing left hand. What's amazing is how shocking the play's depiction of human brutality remains even today, 60 years and several Quentin Tarantino films later. For Williams, the discipline and the poetry were yet to come. But he already had the gift...
...Lowell House, the realization that this was a special place and a special time hit you very quickly. There, trudging along the walks in deep preoccupation, was the antifascist scholar in exile, Gaetano Salvemini, and there was the elegant figure of Heinrich Bruning, the former chancellor of Germany, forced to leave in 1934 and on the Harvard faculty since 1936. We weren't in Kansas anymore, Toto, nor in Oswego County, N.Y., which was more to the point...
...serious charges against Seselj. When fighting broke out in 1992, he became one of the three key Serb paramilitary leaders who provided the shock troops of ethnic cleansing. He recruited and commanded a rabid band of "volunteers" dubbed the Chetniks in honor of Serbia's World War II royalist antifascist squads. Dressed in natty black jackets, the Chetniks left a well-documented trail of blood as they rampaged across Croatia and Bosnia, all the while bragging they were acting under Seselj's command. They exaggerate, he says. "I just happen to have had the traditional Chetnik title of Duke assigned...