Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Rumania, said the Cominform Journal, a "verification" purge had cleansed the party of 180,000 "alien class elements, opportunists and Titoite agents."
The attack on Farmer Merkel was duplicated last week in hundreds of villages in East Germany, Red terrorists bore down on all known or potential leaders of non-Communist opposition. The Reds' aims: to eliminate the Christian Democratic Party in East Germany, including three cabinet ministers in Lä...
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, son of a laborer. He became a railway electrician, spent 1935-44 in prison for organizing unions, helped found the Cominform in 1947. As secretary general of the Rumanian Communist Party, he last month announced that he had completed a purge of "undesirable [Titoist] elements."
There was scarcely a Communist leader in the Russian satellite countries who in 1949 had not been reported under Moscow's suspicion and on the verge of death or demotion. Nobody in the West could be quite sure who was in high favor or in hot water. Western observers...
He Who Can Laugh. In Italy, which boasts Europe's largest Communist Party outside Russia, Moscow has so far permitted Boss Palmiro Togliatti to follow freewheeling, flexible tactics in his pursuit of power. Many Communist workers and peasants understand little of Marx's ideology and are permitted deviations...