Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that such faith and courage can be stamped out. Mikolajczyk was a brave man, but the Communists chased him from Poland. Benes, who stood up to Hitler, was a brave man, but the Communists broke him. Petkoff was a brave man, but they shot him. If the Communist terror machine keeps rolling over Europe and Asia, erasing faith in freedom, the Reds will be strong enough to fight a war with the U.S.; they may be strong enough to win it. If the Communists should get control of Europe and China and hold them, they might beat...
...committed suicide, and who would probably not live to the end of his sentence. The lesson that Lammers held for the world was that there were other men like him and not only in Germany, whose mediocre but precise minds were willing to do the office work of terror...
...years he had spent in bitter poverty. He began his reign by purging the ranks of the NKVD, successor to the OGPU. Next he purged Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and practically the entire High Command of the Red Army. He gave his name to two of the Red Terror's maddest years (1936-38), the "Yezhovshchina." In the Yezhovshchina, the most fantastic denunciations were accepted at face value by the NKVD; no one was safe. Terror was completely indiscriminate, torture equal to anything that went on in Nazi concentration camps. The papers referred to Yezhov almost as lyrically...
Beria; he is the normalcy of the Soviet state. Has he established a society whose normal members can be trusted to "keep order"? In a way, yes. An active Yezhov-type terror no longer stalks Russia. Most Soviet citizens go to bed at night without fearing that Beria's MVD will pound on their doors. This security, however, is bought at a terrible price. The Russian people live in a sort of "house arrest." They dare not shift from city to city in search of work. They do not talk or even think too long about how they...
...Criminal Justice bill, Laborite Emrys Hughes launched a movement to unwig and unfrock Britain's men of law. "These medieval practices,"* he charged, "are out of keeping with modern courts." "The whole method," chimed in Communist Willie Gallacher, "is designed to create a feeling of fear and terror...