Word: rastrel
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...former Soviet chargé d'affaires at Athens," will appear a new entry: "author of One Who Survived." This book will be one of the heaviest counts against Author Barmine if the NKVD is ever able to extend to him Russia's "highest measure of social protection"-rastrel (shooting...
...extremely guilty the Court had found the prisoners, then paused to deliver sentence: "Xenophon. Sitnin! Ten years imprisonment!" Two other less important prisoners received the same sentence. But the five ringleaders, headed by Professor Leonid Ramzin, were condemned, one after an-other to: "The highest measure of social protection, Rastrel [Death by shooting]." At each death sentence cheers rang through the packed courtroom, echoed by a crowd of 10,000 which had been standing in the snow outside since 5 p. m.- seven hours. To correspondents, some of the men sentenced to death looked "broken," others "nervous," as OGPU police...
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