Word: nkvd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without the slightest hint of praise for her valuable services in the past-such as the time she unselfishly let the executioners of the NKVD dispose of her husband-the Communists tried to explain last week what led to the downfall of Rumania's Ana Pauker, the beefy First Lady of Communism (TIME, June...
...Time of the Assassins, by God frey Blunden. A tale of two fanaticisms -the SS kind and the NKVD kind- in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov (TIME...
...Time of the Assassins, by Godfrey Blunden. A tale of two fanaticisms-the 55 kind and the NKVD kind-in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov (TIME...
...Time of the Assassins, by Godfrey Blunden. A tale of two fanaticisms-the SS kind and the NKVD kind-in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov (TIME...
Cold Intent. The Time of the Assassins bears the mark of truth. Blunden has evoked the unutterable weariness of the Ukrainians as they are manipulated by the warring camps. He notes the exact inflection of the NKVD voice, "a voice trained in the essentials, trained in the minimum of personal expression." In a few harsh strokes, he renders the whole humiliating relationship between Nazi overlords and Ukrainian collaborators. But he is at his best in comparing Nazis and Stalinists. Both, as he paints them, are alike in their disregard for the human person, but the Germans kill wantonly while...