Word: diversionist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Guerrilla units, mounted and foot, must be formed, diversionist groups must be organized to combat enemy troops, to foment guerrilla warfare everywhere, to blow up bridges and roads, damage telephone and telegraph lines and to set fire to forests, stores and transports...