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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...
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...
...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...