Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite its Hollywood flourishes, Mission to Moscow has power. Even its most one-sided re-enactments of history, such as the Moscow "purge" trials (which uncompromisingly convict Trotsky of collaboration with Germany and Japan to destroy the U.S.S.R.), carry authority.
"That is a sin, and we have been guilty of it, and of this sin we must purge ourselves. . . .
>Spindrift was Mussolini's claim that "there has never been any act of sabotage or protest against the war." He conveniently forgot his purge of 160,000 faltering Fascist Party members and the close watch the Gestapo and the Ovra are keeping on suspected revolutionaries and possible Darlanites. He...
Being offered one of the biggest war jobs was one proof. Being permitted to talk his way out of it and into new, enlarged powers as Petroleum Coordinator was an even greater one. Then came the final tribute from Chairman William R. Boyd Jr. of the Petroleum Industry War Council...
How unnatural Mussolini's state of war is to the Italian people was evident after bombers had swarmed over Milan. Public outcries and wall inscriptions calling for peace led Il Duce to change governors and purge his Party leadership. When King Vittorio Emanuel and his Queen, aping Britain'...