Word: antifasciste
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...year-old student died when a tear-gas grenade exploded in his face during a Santiago street brawl last month. As the violence increases, political parties have begun to organize for street warfare. The Communist Party has set up "self-defense committees" throughout Santiago. The Socialists talk of establishing "antifascist brigades." On the other side, a youthful group of extreme rightists called Patria y Libertad talks vaguely of an organization of "shock troops" to combat leftists...
...dropped completely out of sight. As some stories have it, Stoph was captured and sent to Moscow, where he picked up his fluent Russian. Another version is that he had been a Soviet spy all along. Stoph's official biography says only that he had been engaged in "antifascist activity" throughout the Nazi years. In any case, he surfaced in war-scarred Berlin in 1945 as Ulbricht's personal aide...
...against fascism, he preferred a patriot like Churchill to the antifascist pacifists, whom he skewered on a couplet: Which will sound better in the days to come...
...Antifascist" Ditch. By now he is directly under the glaring searchlights and Russian-made machine guns of Ulbricht's 15,000 Grepos (Grenzpolizei or border guards). Each watchtower is manned by two sentries who are under orders to shoot to kill. In case of heavy firing from either East or West, the Grepos can retreat to 188 new concrete bunkers, which have been built alongside and in front of the towers. A few steps farther is an asphalt pavement, just wide enough to enable armored vehicles to race up and down the border; it is followed by an area...
...work to emerge during the Occupation. It was widely construed as a political allegory, the conflict between Antigone and Creon being viewed as that between the R*esistance and the collaborationists. The French people were divided, however, into those who found the play "fascist" and those who found it "antifascist." Thus Anouilh would seem to have achieved a good deal of the "negative capability" that Keats attributed to Shakespeare. And it is true that Anouilh did not stack the cards strongly in Antigone's favor as Sophocles had; a number of people even stoutly maintain that Creon is the true...