Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For 25,000,000 Koreans a new era had begun. Russian marines patrolled Seoul, Korea's capital. Elsewhere in the Land of Morning Calm, Red Army paratroopers and truck-borne infantry had taken over airfields, harbors, railway junctions. Moscow reported that the Red flag waved in Korean towns, that...
As reprisal against Allied countermeasures, strikes had flared periodically in the north. In Trieste all work had stopped when local Communists were arrested. The Venice area had been tied up by a general strike in protest against an Allied-nominated committee to purge Fascists. The Partisans preferred to handle the...
A Shot at Headquarters. Barmine's story really begins in 1934, when a shot rang out in the Leningrad headquarters of the Communist Party. A student had killed Sergei Kirov, Leningrad Party secretary. Practically nobody outside Russia had ever heard of Kirov (he was Stalin's political heir...
By the time the Purge petered out, the highest measure of social protection had been extended to six presidents of federated Soviet republics, most of the Red Army's general staff, most of the leading sections of the NKVD, most of the Peoples Commissars, herds of Communist bureaucrats, droves...
There is no such thing as a nonpolitical Soviet official. But Barmine had kept as far away from politics as possible. He had always voted the straight Stalinist ticket. He had immersed himself in his diplomatic chores and a Baedekerian interest in Greek architecture and antiquities. During the early days...