Word: schmelka
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Furious Communists had no intention of leaving him or any of their former allies in peace. Old hands at character assassination and the literary smear ("General Krivitsky, you are Schmelka Ginsburg!"), they vilified the deserters in cartoons and articles. But with its first-string literati gone, the New Masses was reduced to printing shrill invective by Ruth McKenney (My Sister Eileen}, low growls by professional Communist Growler Mike Gold (Jews Without Money), venomous cartoons by William Gropper...
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