Word: diversionist
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...German people; a 'militarist' seems to be one who believes in defending his home against the threat created by the large forces in East Germany; a 'spy' would seem to be anyone who is curious about what goes on in the world; a 'diversionist' may be anyone who opposes Soviet views; a 'subversive' appears to be anyone who favors freedom of speech, assembly and movement...
...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...
...roar of the planes continued. The City Assembly heard it when, led by tough little Mayoress Louise Schroeder, it defied the Russians and sent an appeal for intervention to the U.N. Communist Boss Wilhelm Pieck heard it when he told party leaders that they must fight the "infection" of diversionist elements. "In the last three weeks," cried Pieck, "you have lost all the popularity you have gained in the last three years." And the children heard the sound, and feared it, for it stirred memories of bombings not so long ago-children like twelve-year-old Max, who each night...
...Diversionist? That was not the party line Communism laid down for the faithful after V-J day when the Kremlin decided to go back to the open doctrine of straight class struggle. After Lombardo's October speech, swarthy, handsome Communist Secretary General Dionisio Encinas wrote a gently reproving reply in the party paper, La Voz de Mexico. By going the way Lombardo advocated, he said, ". . . the Mexican working-class movement has lost its independence...
...Polish underground leaders who had come out of their holes at Soviet invitation-and vanished. Last time Molotov had been queried in San Francisco, he smiled and said that nobody need be concerned about their health. Now he said bluntly that the Poles were under arrest, charged with "diversionist activity" against the Red Army. He did not have to add that the penalty might be death...