Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Andrei Y. Vishinsky, the "haranguing hyena" or the "jeering jaguar" who achieved U.N. notoriety (1947-54) for his vitriolic attacks on the U.S., made his reputation as a prosecuting attorney in a theatrical series of purge trials of Bolshevik leaders in Moscow in 1936-38. Among the 54 men cross...
In the Kremlin's haste to rewrite Soviet history, another seamy little sequence in the Communist past turned up like a bug under a mattress: a belated charge that Stalin practiced and tolerated antiSemitism. Khrushchev, in his virtuoso weep session, had told party leaders about Stalin's fanatical...
There was less reticence in the satellite states, where the purge of Jewish Communists has been taken up by party newspapers, particularly in Poland. But the "Zionist conspiracy" still found a stout supporter in Czechoslovakia's Communist Premier Viliam Siroky, who admitted last week that "certain manifestations of antiSemitism...
The ideal solution, of course, would be if the unions would purge themselves. But in many cases the power of racketeers is so great that such a move could never begin, even if it ever did, the move would hopelessly split the unions wide open. Just recently, the AFL-CIO...
In Communism's purge of the purgers, Zachariades' was the first head to fall outside the Soviet Union.