Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The purge continued smoothly. Action committees took over breweries, the movie industry, the national soccer team, the table-tennis association. Even the Boy Scouts had an action committee. All public officials suspected of being anti-Communist were dismissed. The director and chief physician of the state prison in Mlada Boleslav...
The Sixth Day. Said Gottwald: "If anybody thinks that an exchange of leaders is enough, and otherwise everything may remain as before, he is mistaken. .. ." The Communists proceeded to consolidate their victory. The Central Action Committee formally declared itself "the center of all public life." The purge of "negatively disposed...
The Fleeing Bronze Horses. Others, less widely known but no less vehemently damned, were Vissarion Shebalin, Gavriil Popov, Nikolai Myaskovsky and Vano Muradeli. Like the Soviet artists and writers condemned by the Committee in recent months, they were charged with falling for pernicious Western glitter. The verdict of the Committee...
In 1926 the Soviet State Publishing House put out Volume One of a projected Big Soviet Encyclopedia. Its title page listed Shmidt as chief of a 14-man board of editors made up entirely of Old Bolsheviks; Karl Radek and Nicolai Bukharin were among them. As years passed, and volume...
"By making the schools and universities equally liable to the penalties of this law," continues the statement, "It invites a purge of every liberal educator in the state. This bill strikes at the roots of liberty of thought and expression without which any education is impossible and education in a...