Word: communisme
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When reality does break through it can be deeply self-abusive and cynical. A Soviet journalist tells Bukovsky that he is happy with Communism because it allows him to earn a good living writing demagogic rubbish. "In a normal country," he says, "they wouldn't let me within a mile of the press! What would I be do ing? Working as a navvy." The most pervasive reality, bureaucratic absurdity, al lows Bukovsky to score even in the last wild moments of his captivity...
...written a book about his experience entitled "Tales from a Vietnamese Gulag," and he likens his political education to that of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. "At first when I read Solzhenitsyn I thought he was just anti-Communist, but now I know it is true. You have to see Communism to believe it," Toai says. Like Solzhenitsyn, he has gone from revolutionary supporter to virulent anti-Communist propagandist...
Hieu and Toai's accusations reflect their complete disillusionment with Communism, a sharp turnaround from their earlier revolutionary actions. Toai in particular is bitter about the failure of the NLF ideals, and blames the Hanoi regime for co-opting the NLF and radicalizing its more moderate platform. He says he refused to serve on the NLF Finance Committee because he was chosen to draw up a plan to confiscate all private property in Vietnam, not an original NLF proposal. The idealistic people in the NLF sought to rely upon the power of Hanoi to overthrow the Saigon government, but once...
...aristocratic sugar grower, Beltran was educated at the London School of Economics. In 1934 he bought a dormant Lima newspaper, La Prensa, and despite lengthy absences to serve in government, managed to build it into his nation's most influential paper. A fiscal conservative who staunchly opposed Communism, he was named Finance Minister and Prime Minister by President Manuel Prado in 1959 and during the next two years managed to cut Peru's inflation rate from 11% to 3% and erase the government's budget deficit. Resigning in 1961 after a futile bid for the presidency, Beltran...
...difficult to pronounce for some. Aleksandr is a bearded patriarch of human rights and his name should inspire decent--if non-materialistic--political thoughts in K-School students. The contest organizers want an inspirational name. Who could better satisfy them? Objections: Tinges and wisps of Socialism and Communism. The guy doesn't even speak English. Newsweek caption: "Solzhenitsyn at Harvard, permanently...