Word: bolsheviks
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However, I don't know what the conditions are now under the Bolshevik occupation. There are rumors that the beaches are declared prohibited military zones, in order to eliminate flight by the Baltic Sea. Even fishing boats are watched carefully by escorting speedboats supplied during the war to the Bolsheviks under Lend-Lease. I don't think that at present there is any bathing at the Baltic Riviera, drenched with blood. Who could enjoy...
...abolished the death penalty, except for political offenses-used it rarely even then. The Revolution, made largely by men who had been imprisoned or exiled when they would have been executed in many other countries, abolished all capital punishment on Feb. 16, 1920, reinstated it three months later. Anti-Bolshevik Russians remember that Feb. 15, 1920, became known as the "Night of Blood" because the Communist executioners worked hard to beat the deadline...
...second more intimate lesson for foreigners (it concerned Joseph Stalin and his relations with his people) was contained in a letter from the Generalissimo to the magazine Bolshevik. In it, Stalin complained about the "panegyrics" in his own honor found everywhere in Russia. Some recent samples...
...taken part in a struggle for power was to say that they were the victims of a struggle for personal power. . . Their message was for history. . .It deceived Henry Yagoda who was entrusted to prepare the confessions. . . . But the Khozyain was not deceived. . . . He, too, is an Old Bolshevik. . . . We know that he acted immediately because next day the trial was all confusion and the day after that . . . the Old Bolsheviks had become Traitors...
...Monty be a Bolshevik...