Word: terrors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three months ago, when the Morgan Liner Dixie was grounded in a hurricane in the Florida Straits, her 231 passengers spent some 60 hours face to face with the greatest terror of their lives. Kept from their staterooms by sloshing sewage and seawater, they huddled about the smashed furniture in the ship's public rooms, sang, peered through rain-drenched windows at the waiting ships which finally succeeded in rescuing them all (TIME. Sept...
...height of Stakhanovite celebrations in Moscow, Dictator Stalin said grimly that in the Soviet transport sector, anti-Stakhanovites have had their teeth knocked, in and been booted from their jobs. He clearly indicated that he means to enforce speedups throughout Russia by the same methods of OGPU terror which have forced 85% of all Russian peasants who were not wiped out to join collective farms...
...Russia the Soviet secret service has had a long and fascinating history, increasing in respectability with the years. Members of the dread Tsarist Okhrana were remarkably successful in insinuating themselves into the Cheka of Lenin which conducted the original so-called "Red Terror." So odious did the Cheka become that it was finally supposed to have been purged of its baser elements and was renamed the Ogpu. Under the late great Felix Dzerzhinsky, an extremely able and somewhat sadistic Pole, the Ogpu became internationally odious but in Russia it saved the Bolshevik Dictatorship from being overthrown by popular and democratic...
...credited with having devised perhaps the Ogpu's brightest idea from the viewpoint of entrenching the Ogpu as a permanent and self-supporting organ of the State. The idea: to embark on major Soviet Five-Year-Plan building projects with Ogpu prisoners for workers and the Ogpu Terror to goad them to superhuman efforts in completing the project on time. Greatest of such Ogpu projects thus far was the famed Stalin Canal (linking the White Sea via Lake Onega with the Baltic Sea), finished two years ago (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933). Uncensored sources told of men & women driven with...
...maze of intrigue and assassination known as Balkan politics, the activities of the Vetrechnata Makedonska Revoliutsionna Organizatsia have given rise to strange legends. Originally a conspiratorial group seeking independence for Macedonia, V. M. R. O. organized uprisings against the Turks, bombed trains, spread a net of terror that reached into most European countries. Last spring the known history of V. M. R. 0. was recounted by Stoyan Christowe in Heroes and Assassins, Last week U. S. readers were offered a translation of a remarkable Dutch novel in which the emotional aspects of life within the organization were more vividly...