Word: ogpu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years. Members of the dread Tsarist Okhrana were remarkably successful in insinuating themselves into the Cheka of Lenin which conducted the original so-called "Red Terror." So odious did the Cheka become that it was finally supposed to have been purged of its baser elements and was renamed the Ogpu. Under the late great Felix Dzerzhinsky, an extremely able and somewhat sadistic Pole, the Ogpu became internationally odious but in Russia it saved the Bolshevik Dictatorship from being overthrown by popular and democratic elements. That Arch-Terrorist Dzerzhinsky had deserved well of Bolshevism was signalized after his death when...
...tips. Last week came Intourist's first wide-open scandal, impossible to gloss over since it concerned not a nondescript tourist and his nondescript girl guide but potent Comrade Sergei Meshki, for years Chief of Intourist in Moscow and widely credited with being an official of the OGPU Spy Service...
...Last week he was charged with having lived a sultanesque life for some years, enjoying the favors of over 300 girl guides, and breaking the resistance of girls who repelled him by threatening to fire them from their jobs (softest in the Union) or to incriminate them with the OGPU on some trumped-up charge. Convicted after swift trial by a Red Court, Sultanesque Sergei got ten years at hard labor...
...Girl guides, asked by tourists, "Do you have to report on our movements to the OGPU?" glibly reply: "No, indeed. But of course our manager asks us a good many questions to make sure the tourists are satisfied...
...start lending when you stop spending." Appalled apparently by the universal belief that the administration is like a weather vane which voers to every zephyr from a brain truster, the President assured his audience that the Government "had hourly contact with every portion of the habitable globe." Such an OGPU should dispel all doubts that the fantastic gyrations of the Administration are the results of ignorance. On the whole, however, the speech had constructive implications from the long-term viewpoint, as the President is obviously passing from an idealistic to a realistic attitude...