TIME
The Sunday Times of London reported from Berlin that 178 terms of abuse hitherto approved for use against the West by Communist speakers in East Germany have now been banned. Among them:
capitalist slave owners
capitalist beasts
imperialist bloodsuckers
dehumanized Western bandits terror plutocrats
boogie-woogie gangsters
mass butchers moneybag hyenas
terror pilots
violators of culture
carrion vultures
scum and dregs of humanity In addition, a specific Western statesman may no longer be referred to as a
fascist bandit
despoiler of corpses
delirious subhuman being
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