Word: communisme
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...American Civil Liberties Union, did not accept the government's line on Korea. Freedman recalls disapproving of some of the Soviet Union's policies, both domestic and foreign, but he says he felt then and now that "the Cold War was a fraud and the threat of internal communism, which was the more serious aspect of the problem at the time, was frivolous. I found it hard to believe that people as intelligent and well-educated as my classmates could actually believe in the 'red menace...
...independent. Mondale's public answer: "We cannot accept, let alone defend governments that reject the basic principle of full human rights, economic opportunity and political participation for all their people, regardless of race." To arguments by the South African government that it is keeping the region free of Communism, Mondale replied: "We believe that perpetuating an unjust system is the surest incentive to increase Soviet influence and even racial...
...life, from his violence-scarred childhood in Mississippi to his self-imposed exile in Paris where he died, aged 52. Black Novelist Richard Wright was an outsider. His existence, in fact, was a series of painful partings as he gave up family, friends, roots, Communism and finally his country. He was at home only in the demonic narrative drive and descriptive intensity that produced Native Son and Black...
...school education and worked at menial jobs, he was constantly under suspicion as an intellectual. "He talks like a book," a comrade complained. Observed Wright: "That was enough to condemn me forever as bourgeois." Disregarding warning signals, he tried to interview party members for a series of articles explaining Communism to the Negro masses. Party suspicion became sulfurous. A comrade pointedly reminded him that intellectuals were frequently shot in the Soviet Union. Wright became certain that if his American comrades ever came to power, that would be his fate as well. "I began to feel an emotional isolation that...
...conversion from devout Catholicism to equally devout Communism grew out of the extreme poverty she saw as a child in the Basque mining country. "I know the terrible pain of days without bread, winters without fire, and children dead for lack of money for medicines," she wrote in her 1966 autobiography, They Shall Not Pass. After joining the fledgling Communist Party in 1920, she rose rapidly in party ranks, eventually becoming one of 17 Communist deputies in the Republican parliament. But her personal life was scarred by tragedy. She has long been estranged from her husband, Julian Ruiz...