It's a 7-letter word for a fellow Communist Party member, Tovarich
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Well, lied is perhaps too strong a word: I had an article  in which I said nice .... 
with the communist party before the war and had been a fleeting member of the... [DOC] [TLE] Intourist in the Unworld - Gvsu [PAR] Cummings' Impressions of Communist Russia, Austin Patty sees EIMI primarily 
.... latter word in its conflation of time and space indicates his disorientation.