Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Two years ago this week, Mao launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and the first wall poster, dripping with vitriol, blossomed on the east wall of Peking University's dining hall. Fearful that China was losing the purity of its first revolution and sliding down "the capitalist road" taken...
The Russians are worried about the increasingly anti-Soviet tone of Dubček's liberalization. Czechoslovak news papers, for example, openly accused the Russian secret police of engineering the forced confessions and show trials of the 1950s. In fact, the onetime state prosecutor at those trials, Karol Bacilek...
I volunteer for jock-watch from 2:00 to 3:30 but do not wake up the next man and stay out on the entrance window ledge until five. I am to let no-one in as we now have a population of 150 and we want a stable commune...
> In Bucharest, a party commission attacked Rumania's late strongman Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who died in 1965, as a Stalinist who used terror to keep in power in the 1950s. The commission charged his regime with handing down sentences without trials, of murders, abusive arrests, "rude fakes and transgression...
The leadership of Communist Poland is gripped by a Byzantine intrigue in which hardly anything is really what it seems to be. The regime of Wladyslaw Gomulka, which appeared at first to be threatened mainly by the unrest of students and intellectuals, turns out to be more immediately challenged by...