Word: purgee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Stalin and Lavrenty Beria. Last week Police Chief Beria, the home-town boy, was back in Tiflis (pop. 520,000), capital of Georgia, to undo a purge that rivaled the bizarre fantasy of the Soviet doctors.
In Stalin's Manner. All this looked suspiciously like a groundswell of Georgian nationalism, protesting Great Russian oppression. And as usual in such cases, the punishment was purge-this time "in Stalin's manner," as Radio Tiflis neatly put it. Nearly every ranking Communist in the Georgian Soviet...
¶ That in ordering the doctors' purge in January, he intended a drastic shake-up in the higher echelons, with Lavrenty Beria (whose police were accused of laxity) marked out as one of the first victims. ¶ That Malenkov got wind of Stalin's intentions, and-fearing that...
If this interpretation, or a substantial part of it, is correct, it helps explain why 1) the doctors' purge was called off by Beria with such violent emphasis on false charges and "impermissible means" of extracting confessions; 2) why the glorification of Stalin's name has abruptly declined...
The new leaders of Russia were, in effect, carrying away the pile of faggots which Stalin had prepared for victims still to be found, in a purge that would have a long time to run. At the proper time, the new leaders would have burnings of their own, but they...