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...intelligent, funny, and kind writer, he's endlessly interested in stupid, humorless, cruel people, and in his new book House of Meetings (Knopf; 256 pages) he turns for a fresh supply of them to Stalin-era Russia. Ranging back and forth from frozen Arctic prison camps to the unseemly capitalist free-for-all of the post-Soviet era, House of Meetings is two love stories - one of romantic love, and one of the love between brothers - that are woven together, then crushed and deformed by the state-sponsored terror of the mid-century Soviet regime...
...been blinded by capitalist propaganda. After the meeting, the man in charge took me aside. ''You must make a determined effort to emulate Tao Feng and do your best to reform,'' he warned. ''I'm not aware of any wrongdoing on my part,'' I said. ''Perhaps you'll change your attitude when you've had time to think things over,'' said a second man. ''If you try to cover up for the imperialists, the consequences will be serious.'' I decided the meeting was not very important. The government's policy was always changing, like a pendulum swinging from left...
...trousers, I blended in.) I saw a group of Red Guards leading an old man on a length of rope, shouting and hitting him with a stick. Suddenly he collapsed. When he did not get up, the Red Guards jumped on him. The old man shrieked in pain. ''Dirty capitalist! Exploiter of workers! You deserve to die!'' they shouted. I heard of other victims being humiliated, terrorized and often killed when they offered resistance. The newspapers and leading Maoists congratulated the Red Guards on their vandalism. I felt utterly helpless...
...again. This is a part of our cultural heritage. Every Chinese should be proud of it.'' The young man whose revolutionary work I had interrupted said angrily, ''You shut up! These things belong to the old culture. They are the useless toys of the feudal emperors and the modern capitalist class and have no significance to us, the proletarian class. Our Great Leader Chairman Mao taught us, 'If we do not destroy, we cannot establish.' The old culture must be destroyed to make way for the new socialist culture.'' Pleading was not going to move the Red Guards. The time...
...Korea, Truman also refused to go all out for victory. In June 1950, communist North Korea invaded the capitalist South. With Seoul unable to hold off the assault, Truman sent in U.S. troops, which quickly turned the tide. Giddy with success, he announced that the U.S. would not simply push the communists back to the border; it would liberate the North as well. That seemed like a good idea until China, terrified by the prospect of American soldiers on its border, joined the war, forcing the U.S. into a headlong retreat...