Word: nkvd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From then on, El Campesino's chief idea was to escape. In 1944, he managed to get as far as Teheran, and thought he was safe. An informer tipped off the Russians, and one day the NKVD closed in, kidnaped him and hauled him back across the frontier. For a time he was shut up in Lubianka prison and put through various physical and psychological "persuasions" to sign a phony confession of spying for the British and Americans. He refused, and then began four years of prison camps in Siberia and Turkestan. His brief descriptions of Lubianka, the slave...
...government lay in the limitations on its power rather than in its systems of popular representation or checks and balances. But these limitations, which centered on power of the purse, have disappeared. Congressmen are granting the government "illegitimate functions" like security benefits, school lunches, and public housing ("the NKVD American Plan") and voting increased taxes to pay for them. And, according to Gwinn, the root of this evil is the Sixteenth or income tax Amendment--passed in 1913. The solution, then, is to restore the limitation that prevailed from 1789 to 1913 by a Constitutional amendment to limit the federal...
...first name. He so charmed the prison guards that they regularly let him put on his own leg irons and handcuffs (required for men condemned to death) each evening When Meurant offered to show Part-Time Guard Jacques Gauvin "how they used to put on silencers in the NKVD," the guard was so flattered that he promptly passed his revolver through the bars to the prisoner. The second time he did it, Meurant refused to give it back. "Oh," he soothed, "here we're just one happy family; keep quiet, now, and I'll see that...
...strange, sealed-off world that young Stalin saw within the Kremlin's cold walls. As his father ruthlessly hacked his way upwards, Vasily found himself more & more isolated from other children. His companions were the stern-faced NKVD sentries lining the Kremlin corridors ; his teachers, special party instructors...
...Jets are rugged, have fewer moving parts, only a few of which have to be machined to fine piston-engine tolerances. They do not necessarily need high-octane gas, but fly on kerosene, wood alcohol, or, as one U.S. officer puts it, even "on coffee or old rags." The NKVD was instructed to round up everyone in Germany who knew how to build jets. U.S. and British bombers had done the Russians an unintentional favor by making the Nazis push their factories deeper into Eastern Germany. A few German plane builders escaped, but 80% of the Nazi aircraft industry-then...