When elected officials accept kickback, they are engaged in bribery or corruption.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Kickback is a payment made to an elected official who have illicitly approved or sanctioned or facilitated an appointment or transactions. These kickbacks are punishable under the state and federal law.
Soliciting or giving or offering any object like money, gold or asset of value in exchange of influencing any government official is known as bribery.
Act of criminal activity or dishonesty by any organization or person entrusted with position of authority is named as corruption.
Answer: C is correct (the security arrangements that Stalin made to protect himself).
Explanation: the term "Iron Curtain" was used for the first time by Winston Churchill in American town of Fulton (Missouri) in 1946 (so-called "Fulton Speech). At that time Churchill was a ex-prime-minister, but the phenomenon of "Iron Curtain" was quite visible even from the UK.
The last official execution was in April 11, 1775,and took place in Germany. (Anna Maria Schwiigel was legally executed at Kempten in Bavaria.)
Increased is the correct answer
