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.

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.

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.