Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Traicho Kostov, 52, ousted Communist Vice Premier of Bulgaria; in execution by hanging; after a Communist purge in Sofia.
* During the Great Moscow Purge trials in 1938, Nikolai Krestinsky similarly repudiated his confession, screamed: "Not guilty." He was rushed out of the courtroom, returned 20 minutes later to go back on the stand. That time he was letter-perfect in his part, missed not a cue.
Some of his fellow Communists, said Poland's President Boleslaw Bierut, had been "politically blind." What they had not seen was the Red handwriting on the wall: Stalin had slated Poland for all-out economic and military colonization. A purge of the blind was inevitable.
¶ Has no day-in, day-out hobby, but tries to purge his system of a week's bottled-up jitters in a rugged physical workout once a week.
In the past week many newspapers have made a dramatic comparison between the safeguards employed in the Communist trial and the methods of the recent Czechoslovakian purge. The comparison is legitimate and brings credit to our courts. But it is less satisfactory to compare the procedures in Judge Medina's...