Word: viles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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KHRUSHCHEV began his denunciation of Stalin by revealing two suppressed letters. One was written by Lenin's wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, to Lev Kamenev, chief of the Politburo: "I beg of you to protect me from rude interference with my private life and from vile invectives and threats [by Stalin]." Lenin wrote direct to Stalin: "You permitted yourself a rude summons of my wife to the telephone and a rude reprimand of her ... I have no intention to forget so easily that which is being done against me ... I ask you therefore that you weigh carefully whether you are agreeable...
...then brought to the office of Zakovsky [chief interrogator], who offered him freedom on condition that he make before the court a false confession fabricated in 1937 by the NKVD concerning sabotage, espionage and diversion in a terroristic center in Leningrad. With unbelievable cynicism Zakovsky told about the vile mechanism for the crafty creation of fabricated 'anti-Soviet plots.' . . . 'You yourself [he told Rosenblum] will not need to invent anything. The NKVD will prepare for you a ready outline for every branch of the center; you will have to study it carefully and to remember all questions...
...After the war Stalin became even more capricious, irritable and brutal; in particular, his suspicion grew. His persecution mania reached unbelievable dimensions . . . This un believable suspicion was cleverly taken advantage of by the abject provocateur and vile enemy Beria, who had murdered thousands of Communists and loyal Soviet people . . . The question arises . . . Why did we not do something earlier, during Stalin's life, in order to prevent the loss of innocent lives? It was because Stalin personally supervised [the purges], and the majority of the Politburo members did not at the time know all of the circumstances . . . and could...
...lint, off the top of Milt's mind. Milt's mind, it is true, often seems a mighty dull place to spend 310 pages, but even the dullness has its fierce effect. Without it, the author could hardly convey how awful it is to be Milt, how vile it is to run from life like a frightened pig, to crush everything in the path, and in the end (as a pig's sharp trotters sometimes will) to slash your own throat...
...great Savrola, savior of his country, confronts the "sombre-clad" assassin who has slain the Dictator. The act offends his nobility. "Vile scum!" Savrola cries, and he slashes the culprit across the face with his stick...