Word: terrorizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight thousand Jews, shipped away to certain death in the Eastern European concentration camps. But Barbie's most infamous achievement was the 1943 arrest, torture and murder of the daring underground guerilla a leader, Jean Moulin. That outrage above all others came to symbolize the Nazi brand of terror, as Moulin emerged from his last harrowing session with Barbie, an eyewitness recalled that "he had been beaten terribly, he was all bruises, a leg was sort of trailing behind him. He had been very neatly destroyed...
...counterintelligence network of only 130,000), most of whom keep watch on their fellow citizens within the U.S.S.R. Even before Andropov's rise to power, the KGB's influence inside the Soviet Union was immense. Today more than four decades after the height of Stalin's reign of terror, many Soviets are still reluctant to call the organization by name, preferring such euphemisms as "the Committee," "the Office," or just an abbreviation...
...seems to embody Western fear and loathing of the Soviet system. Almost from its inception as an instrument of "revolutionary justice" following the Bolshevik revolution, the Soviet secret police, known successively as the Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKVD, NKGB, MGB and, since 1954, the KGB, has been synonymous with terror and coercion. It brings to mind the worst excesses of the Stalinist period: the public show trials and confessions exacted through torture, the random arrests and midnight executions in the infamous Lubyanka prison. KGB "sleepers" penetrating to the heart of Western intelligence services are now a staple of espionage fiction, film?...
...Glenn Miller sound. Now, after most of the disinformation and half-truths have been sifted out, Andropov remains an unknown quantity. What is clear is that his rise to power has coincided with the gradual evolution of the Soviet Union as a modern police state in which the physical terror of the Stalin era has been largely replaced with subtler forms of control. The KGB has developed into an increasingly sophisticated instrument for advancing national interests around the world. As head of the KGB, Andropov had much to do with those changes. Now that he holds the top party...
This passiveness--indeed indifference--lies at the heart of "indirect responsibility" and is tragically reminiscent of another age. When the Nazis first began to persecute Jews in Germany, the police and other authorities did nothing. Civilians watched the beginnings of terror, uncaring. All of these groups had the same attitude: why should we do anything or feel responsible, we are harming no one. Such a parallel in no way equates the inaction of the IDF with the inhuman genocide administered by the Nazis. But it does show that some Israeli officers were guilty of the same indifference that helped destroy...