In 1933 he [Robert Eikhe] waged a fierce struggle against the regime’s opponents, petitioning the Politburo in July 1933 to retain the power of the troiki in West Siberia to impose the death penalty.

I see the faitheists as parallels to the quietly closeted gays who cringed at the tactics of Act Up or the sit-in counter veterans who shook their heads at Malcolm X.

to know the real ultimation, as it is termed, of France upon the general plan of peace

The older man bought a slab of Coca-Cola at the counter and carried it out ahead of the younger man.