Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether the exiled Georgy Malenkov will be allowed to manage his dam for long is something that perhaps even Nikita Khrushchev does not know at the moment. But just in case Malenkov must be done away with, Khrushchev laid the groundwork a fortnight ago by a pointed reference to Malenkov...
Ready Evidence. By the spring of 1949, Beria and Malenkov had the doctored evidence ready. Some of Zhdanov's lieutenants were charged with engaging in corrupt practices, others were accused of pursuing "their own economic policies." One after another, the Zhdanovites disappeared. Virtually the entire Leningrad party apparat led...
Nikita Khrushchev, pudgy, hard-drinking son of Ukrainian peasantry, became dictator of Russia last week, grinning and triumphant after carrying out the most sweeping purge of top-level Kremlin Communists in almost 20 years.
Not since the great purge of 1936-38 had so many big Kremlin names been dragged in the dirt. The charges against the first four ousted leaders had a Stalinist ring: they were accused of having "resorted to methods of intrigue and formed a collusion against the Central Committee"; i.e...
Informed of the Supreme Court's decision upholding state laws against obscenity (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Author Philip (Generation of Vipers') Wylie, 55, declared himself unimpressed, fired off a Wylian philippic at the Great American Gaminess: "Are we going to stop publication of the bust measurements of movie stars...