Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The "permanent purge" in an inherent aspect of Soviet totalitarianism, a study by Zbigniew K. Brzezinski of the Russian Research Center has concluded.
Since Stalin's death, Brzezinski says in his "The Permanent Purge" published today by the University Press, purges have hit the higher-ups of the Party rather than the mass membership. He believes conflicts have been confined largely to the upper strata of the Communist hierarchy.
that the Hanukkah miracle happened. The Assyrians were overthrown in Jerusalem, and according to legend, when the Jews returned to purge the temple of its alien idols and rededicate it, there was only sacred oil enough for one day's burning of the temple lamp. Yet the lamp burned...
Among the few people close enough to the late Dictator Stalin to address him by his nickname "Koba" was a fellow Georgian, Sergo Ordzhonikidze (rhymes roughly with poor-Johnny-kids-me), an oldtime Bolshevik who had risen to be top commissar of heavy industry. One day in 1936, during what...
¶Christianity must purge itself of "accidental Western accessories" and of its feeling of uniqueness if it is to be accepted in the future, said Historian Arnold J. Toynbee at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. "We treat Christianity as if its virtue were not derived from being Christian, but...