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...there still be doubts that Russia has shed its brutal Stalinist past? Not after what happened last week. In the course of arresting a noted Soviet author, two carloads of tough KGB (secret police) agents stopped everything, piled out of their autos and waded into a field to pick bunches of wild lilacs. Dissidents may be tossed into prison or insane asylums under Leonid Brezhnev's regime, but this is repression with hearts and flowers...
...Brutal Fist. Gradually, but ever more noticeably, the image of the dictator who ruled the Soviet Union for nearly 40 years is enjoying a public refurbishing. Russia's public celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany accentuated the trend. Stalin's name has appeared frequently and admiringly in a torrent of war memoirs and newspaper articles. The first bust of him to be seen in Moscow since 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev launched the destalinization spring day. Within a few short years, a cold war would descend on the Continent, turning it into a zone...
...believe that the present Soviet leaders, despite their problems with economic shortcomings and political dissent, plan to reinstate Stalin's brutal fist as well as his statues. Official Soviet histories continue to condemn his political "excesses" during the Great Purges of the 1930s. The more likely explanation for his current limited elevation is that the regime's major military figures want to build up their roles in World War II-and they can hardly avoid upgrading their wartime leader in the process...
Hungary's brutal onetime Stalinist boss Matyas Rakosi ended up badly. In 1956, he was deposed by Nikita Khrushchev as part of a destalinization program and spirited off to the Soviet Union. According to unofficial reports from Russia, he died in 1963 in the Kremlin hospital...
Military justice, in other words, can be counted on to be arbitrary, brutal and repressive, and Robert Sherill does not have to play with hypothetical cases to prove it. His cleverly titled new book. Military Justice is to Justice as Military Music is to Music, relates at a quick, journalistic clip enough examples of judicial miscarriage to confirm anyone's worst fears. The Washington editor of The Nation. Sherill is more thought-provoking than thoughtful in this fast-reading study of the Armed Forces' system of justice. But if the volume turns up few surprises, it conveys much that...