Word: slaughterings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holy war abroad to save civilization and God from the atheist barbarians is also the holy war at home to save democracy from the Reds, to rescue Christ from the anti-Christ of materialistic Marxism. These are more powerful slogans than those which deceived and betrayed us into the slaughter of 1917. The leading voices of European imperialism, our own profiteering patriots and pothouse politicians, have suddenly all become pious...
...opened fire before the Russians knew they were there. . . . While these 100 Finns kept the Russians occupied from the front, 100 more made a flanking movement uphill on both sides of the Russians and the circle of Finns poured hell into the enemy. ... It was a half-hour slaughter, with unceasing machine-gun, rifle and grenade fire. Then it stopped as suddenly as it began. ... In ten minutes all the Finns had filtered back with their wounded, saying that most of the Russians had been killed but a couple of hundred had managed to escape...
...troops from India arrived in a British-held sector of the French front: an all-Moslem contingent of about 200 with their own cooks, water carriers, religious teachers, food-rice, turmeric, ginger, ghi (clarified butter). British supply officers set out to buy livestock, chiefly goats, for the Moslems to slaughter in their own pure...