Word: trotskyish
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...others, in a triple wreck at Kosina, near Moscow (TIME, Jan. 18). That same day four Siberian railmen had been sentenced to death before a firing squad for "gross criminal negligence" in causing a wreck.* Wives, kinsfolk and 1,000 curious Muscovites crowded the smoky room. Fierce, Trotskyish Chief Prosecutor Reuben Katanyan pointed a long, lean finger at the dazed defendants, described the wreck in lurid detail. "The passenger coaches were crushed like matches!'' he cried. "Forty of the dead will never be identified. They were cut into bits!" Nevertheless, Prosecutor Katanyan asked no severer penalties than...
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