Word: russias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Galicia (then in Poland, now part of the U.S.S.R.'s Ukraine), where he became a prosperous landowner and businessman. He was mild-mannered and quiet, but developed a deep grudge against a prominent neighboring Jewish family over a business dispute. Menten went home to Holland in 1939, when Russia invaded eastern Poland, and returned in 1941 after the Nazi counter-occupation-this time as a member of the SS. In Galicia, according to witnesses, he helped shoot as many members of the offending family as he could find, then turned on other Jews in the area...
...that Army was bad, it's just that the Netherlands shouldn't challenge Russia in atomic warfare. And in the world of collegiate squash this year, unless Penn or Princeton or someone else proves otherwise, Harvard should be the leader in the arms race...
With his moralist, individualist approach, upperclass lifestyle and unshakeable belief in the democratic and civil libertarian ideals Thomas, never a Marxist ideologue, was at best a bourgeois socialist. Indeed, in his later years, disturbed by the systematic suppression of dissent in Stalinist Russia, he felt his socialist faith slipping...
...have to consider: it was several decades after Marx's first writings that Communists took over Soviet Russia--and that was with money pouring in from many foreign sources. We libertarians have no foreign benefactors--but we've just begun to write," says Steven Wright, editor of Ergo a libertarian newspaper based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wright, unlike many Marxists, does not call for violence to bring about a libertarian society. He feels that the seeds of individualism have already taken hold in the United States and that, sometime in the future, a major intellectual debate will spread...
...that to other libertarians break with the paper. Lawrence White '77, president of Sons of Liberty, Harvard's libertarian group, calls the paper "too right wing." He explains that Ergo founds its philosophy on the thought of novelist Ayn Rand. As a youth, Rand saw the Bolsheviks take over Russia. Before she emigrated to the United States, the Bolsheviks killed both her parents, leaving her with a virulent anti-Communist streak...