Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prestige that goes with having helped Lenin hatch Communism. Molotov is still in high favor 35 years later. The experts prefer to put it negatively: it is no longer clear that Molotov outranks Malenkov. And not far behind is Lavrenty Beria, the mysterious, pince-nezed master of the midnight arrest and lord of the slave camps, whose Gletkin-like climb has paralleled Malenkov's. But there have been signs that 52-year-old Beria is Malenkov's friend & ally, not his competitor...
...smart lawyer named David Marcus for two years appealed the case up the ladder of the higher California courts. Most of the judges attacked the brutality of the arrest, but, conforming to California precedents, upheld the conviction...
Weissberg's arrest was part of the "Great Purge" that followed the first Moscow trials. The G.P.U. gave him a wide choice of crimes to "confess," but their highest hope was that he would admit to organizing a plot to murder Stalin. They were deeply offended when Weissberg not only resisted admitting this, but insisted that he was also innocent of such lesser delinquencies as planning to blow up the Kharkov tractor works, or of building a "counterrevolutionary, Trotskyist, fascist, terrorist, diversionist and espionage organization ... on the territory of the Soviet Union...
Such men became loved and legendary figures in the prison world. But the general atmosphere was one of bewildered mass lunacy. One innocent man, broken on the "conveyer," would implicate a dozen innocent acquaintances. Each of these would implicate a dozen more. Prosecutors signed arrest warrants in bundles, without bothering to read the names. Examiners broke under the strain not only of their work but of fear of being named by their prisoners. Weissberg estimates (on good statistical grounds) that with this sort of thing happening all over the U.S.S.R., the total of purge prisoners could not have been less...
Hungary announced the arrest of four Hungarians accused of spying for the U.S., and described one of them as "an American-trained agent employed...