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There could no longer be any doubt last week-the Soviet Government was again engaged in a nationwide purge, less publicized, and as yet less bloody, than the Great Purge of the '30s, but raking Soviet life from top to bottom. Pravda claimed for the move "political significance of...
What was behind the new purge? Last week the Soviet Government tripled the price of rationed food. (Little food in Russia is unrationed.) Black bread went up from 3.8? to 12.9?* a pound, white bread 10.6? to 30.3?, butter 90.8? to $2.27, sugar 18.9? to 60.6?, meat 53? to $1.29...
¶ A Russian general named S. Lebedev who assumed the part after the original Tito had been liquidated in a Russian purge.
Professor Varga was People's Commissar of Finance in Bela Kun's Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919). Like Bela Kun, Varga fled to Moscow when the Hungarian Soviet collapsed. Unlike Bela Kun, who was liquidated in Russia's Great Purge, he prospered and became economic adviser to the...
The purge had spread to the satellite countries. The Czech Communist Party was ousting some 200,000 of its million members. There were rumors that Marshal Tito had begun a housecleaning among his "Old Guard" Partisans. In Paris, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Georgi Kulishev admitted that Bulgaria was purging "enemies, opponents...