Word: nkvd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marriage of Figaro had been raped three times by Russian soldiers the day before the opening. To Vienna the chief villain is General Alexei Zheltov, Konev's second in command, who is believed by most observers to be more powerful than Konev. Zheltov is a member of the NKVD, is secretive about his past, talks suavely, narrows his eyes when he gets excited, was once a wrestler (220 Ibs.) and is usually described by U.S. correspondents as bullnecked. (Recently he insisted on finding out what the word meant, was furious when...
...Searchlights played on it by night. The Mexican Government provided Trotsky with a 24-hour military guard. He had a private guard of revolver-toting secretaries (one of whom, an American, was kidnaped and murdered during the first attempt against Trotsky). But the assassin, allegedly an agent of the NKVD (Russian Secret Police), arrived in broad daylight, introduced to Trotsky's circle in the guise of a friend. One day as Trotsky sat reading a paper, this friend, Frank Jackson,*produced a small pickax (such as mountain climbers use), smashed Trotsky's skull and crunched into what...
About one thing which many readers would quickly look for, it said little: the great Soviet Purge trials, at which Trotsky (in absentia) was charged with making a deal with Hitler to overthrow Stalin.* Scores of Old Bolsheviks and a miscellany of nondescript political ganoids dredged from the NKVD prisons were convicted of the same charge and shot. Trotsky contended that this charge had been refuted ad nauseam in his own and other people's writings...
Even the charge that Stalin poisoned Lenin is linked to the fact that during the Purge trials Stalin convicted his NKVD chief, Henry Yagoda, of poisoning Novelist Maxim Gorky and Soviet Control Commission Chairman Valerian Kuibyshev (as if President Truman were to charge FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover with poisoning the late Will Rogers and Chester Bowles). And two facts are indisputable: 1) a whole generation of Russian Communists was officially liquidated in circumstances that may gratify mankind's sense of poetic justice, but outrages its sense of human justice; 2) Trotsky was assassinated...
...Manhattan's socialist New Leader reported that the FBI, at the request of the Mexican Government, was working on his case. Jackson had committed an assassin's No. 1 crime: he had failed to escape. Said the New Leader: the Mexican police have discovered that the NKVD is now trying to liquidate Jackson; the operation is in charge of a little-publicized U.S. woman Communist who lives in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, f Translated and completed with surprising fidelity to Trotsky's tone and style by Charles Malamuth, onetime teacher of Russian at the University...