Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police state marching west across Europe, south across Asia, was embodied in the person of Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, Marshal of the Soviet Union (he never fired a shot), Hero of Socialist Labor (he never swung a pick), Member of the Politburo. He is a steady, quiet type who .has a wife, two children and a suburban villa to which he commutes in a Packard -with the shades always drawn...
Menzhinsky's pupil and successor was Genrikh Grigorevich Yagoda, a dull-faced man with a Chaplin mustache under whose regime developed the idea of putting prisoners to work. Even children arrested for "stealing Socialist property" were put into labor camps. The writer Maxim Gorky, a great admirer of Yagoda, glorified "this policy of education by teaching the truths of Socialism. . , ." Gorky added: "People whose historical duty it was to kill some beings in order to free others are martyrs. . . ." Two years later, Yagoda was accused, among other things, of having poisoned Gorky, and condemned to death...
PETER ROBERTS World Socialist Party Los Angeles, Calif...
This week in London, labor representatives from 13 countries (including the U.S.) were meeting to lay plans for cooperation under the European Recovery Program. Late this month, a conference of European socialist leaders will meet in Britain to talk over the chances of one socialist economy for Western Europe...
...world's most eminent Socialist author was enchanted. "My plays are now classics open to all managements," he sniffed, "like Shakespeare's except for the royalties. First come, first served...