Arrests Across a Repressive Era Revealed in Testimonies
An excerpt surveys brutal arrest practices in the Soviet era, detailing invasions of privacy, destruction of possessions, and public humiliations. It traces waves of political imprisonments from 1918 onward, noting notable cases, Cheka to GPU transitions, and purported plans against Jewish populations, ending with a promise of a second installment.
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CHEKA
GPU
Vyazemskaya
Irma Mendel
Comintern
Bolshoi Theater
Klegal
Lubyanka
Kuznetsky
Anna Skrypnikova
Gorky Street
Central Telegraph Office
Saaasha
Hitler
Stalin
Kirov
Leningrad
Soviet Union
Additon
Politi
Sweden
Greece
Sunday Gazette Mail
CURA faces tax rulings on leased urban renewal land profits
Kanawha County officials weigh property tax for CURA land under renewal scheme. Gibson's plan bases assessments on land owned last July 1. Casey argues leasing for profit dictates taxation. 20 units earning $250+ monthly noted, with Tag Galyean Inc. as major income source from the Virginia Truslow Quarrier Goshorn block.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CURA
Gibson
Tag Galyean Inc
Virginia
Truslow, Quarrier and Goshorn Streets
Swartz
Kanawha
Patrick Casey
Casey
United States
Urban Renewal Authority
Severe Weather Forecast Across Zones With Varied Showers
The forecast covers Zones 12 3 4 5 67 8 9 and WV VA PA KY OH with showers likely and warmer today turning cooler tonight and Sunday. Highs range from the 30s to 60s across regions with lows mostly in the 20s to 40s and variable precipitation chances up to 70 percent in some zones. Winds southwest 10 to 20 mph.
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West Virginia
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Ohio
Solzhenitsyn Details Stalin Plot and Okhrana Links
Solzhenitsyn recounts a plan attributed to Stalin to stage Red Square executions of doctors and Jews amid a pogrom and exile, arguing Stalin’s personality and possible Okhrana ties. He cites archives at Hoover Stanford and suggests broader prison camp totals and purges far higher than Western estimates.
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Moscow
Stalin
Red Square
Siberia
Okbrana
V.F. Dzhunkovsky
Solzhenitsyn
Solohenitsyn
Kremlin
Ivan the Terrible
Peter the Great
St. Basil’s Cathedral
Spassky Gate
Rted
Jend
Siberian
The
Okhrana
Paris
Czarist
Secret Police
Hoover Institution
Stanford University
California
Leningrad
Serge M. Kirov
Kirov
Khrushchev
Leizhenitsyn
Hospitals seek tax guidelines from Tax Department
Carter said the hospital association is pressuring the Tax Department for clear rules on taxable items as regulations shift to a 3 percent tax starting Jan. 1. A letter urged hospitals to stop the 1.5 percent tax next Monday and begin the higher rate, while a detailed inquiry was sent Friday to gather questions for a ruling. The group projects a potential $1 million revenue loss and notes uncertainty over which items are taxable, citing drugs, professional services, and expansions as possible exemptions.
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Carter
Tax Department
City Y Offers 12 Week Judo Class for Kids
The Charleston Central YMCA will host a beginner judo program for children starting January 5. The 12 week course runs Saturdays 1 to 3 pm with fees of 12 dollars for Y members and 20 dollars for nonmembers. Malcolm White, president of the West Virginia Judo Association, leads instruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston Central Ymca
West Virginia Judo Assn
Malcolm White
Association
The
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Inoshin
Kazakov
Commission
A. D
Novocherkassk Nkvd
Petrograd
Veniamin
Tanya Khodekevich
Tibet
Vostrikov
KGB
Nevsky
Kruger
V. I. Lenin
Yaroslavl
Murom
Rybinsk
Arzamas
Kolpino
S.r.s
Mensheviks
Anarchists
Popular Socialiists
Maxim Gorky
Lenin
Gorky
Tuenin
Tambov
Ient
Solovetsky Islands
Konkordiya Nikolayevna Losse
Prom Party
Industrial Party
Working Peasants’ Party
TKP
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov
Ayan
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Yezhov
Garland’s
Garland’s Furniture and Appliance, Inc
Seventh Avenue South
Charleston, W. VA
Pacific
Atlantic
Maine
Georgia
Sevuere
Germany
Charleston
Shoney’s
W.va
UTA Kanawha Blvd
Shoney’s Colonial
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