Word: purger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist Party Central Committee's arts-purger, Andrei Zhdanov, had not yet got around to the subject of painting, but artists could take a hint. On the heels of Zhdanov's blast against "bourgeois decadence" in Soviet music (TIME, Feb. 23), 25 members of the Union of Soviet Artists met in Moscow. Puckery, wavy-haired Union Chairman Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov read the party decree on music. The Moscow Bolshevik reported: "A lively discussion. Various painters pointed out that painters were plagued by the same disease as the composers. They spoke about the remnants of formalism, falsely understood novelty...
...perhaps for this purpose that Hitler replaced his scholarly ambassador in Bucharest, Dr. Wilhelm Fabricius, with a brash terrorist, Baron Manfred von Killinger, whose record is one of the bloodiest in Nazidom's unsavory history. Active since 1920 as a plotter, gunman, Putschist and purger, he served briefly as Consul General in San Francisco, scored impressive success in reducing Slovakia to submission. As Gauleiter of Rumania, the Baron could be expected to exhibit those arts of discipline for which he is notorious...