Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RUSSIA Purge of the Purger (See Cover)
Some were to the firing squads: by week's end, 30 Germans had been liquidated for participating in the strikes and riots which shook Red Germany. The Reds reported daily that more "provocateurs" and "strikebreakers" had been clapped in jail-at least 10.000, according to estimates of the well...
"The freedom to read," said the declaration, "is essential to our democracy. It is under attack. Private groups and public authorities in various parts of the country are working to remove books from sale, to censor textbooks, to label 'controversial' books, to distribute lists of 'objectionable'...
¶ To end the purge of teachers, and to promise to consider reinstating hundreds who have been dismissed. East Germans may apply for permission to study in West German institutions.
The first hint was a press announcement that Gregory Ivanovich Petrovsky was to get a special award. Ukrainians recognized the name of an almost forgotten Ukrainian Bolshevik who disappeared in the 1938 purge after being charged with "bourgeois nationalism." A few weeks later, Soviet Playwright Alexander Korneichuk, wartime foreign minister...