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...rather than try to knock it down. As Russia debates what to do with the bones of its first communist leader, his Bulgarian counterpart on Saturday got the last laugh on the country?s post-communist authorities. Georgi Dimitrov?s body was cremated shortly after the collapse of communism in 1990, but following a fierce national debate, the present government decided to finish the job by destroying his mausoleum in downtown Sofia. So with the city center sealed off and tens of thousands of Bulgarians gathered to mark a symbolic occasion, government officials pressed the button detonating some...
HARRY TRUMAN, who had been a little-known and perhaps ill-prepared Vice President, found himself in 1945 facing the most daunting of responsibilities: ending World War II and containing Soviet communism. Truman's foreign-policy leadership gave the U.S. an unprecedented role in international affairs. The choices he made, from the Marshall Plan--to economically strengthen noncommunist nations in the wake of the war--to the founding of NATO, a peacetime military alliance that would limit the Soviet sphere of influence and provide an umbrella for Germany's reconciliation with Europe, fundamentally reshaped the world and planted the seeds...
...Cardinal Karol Wojtyla? "Chi e?" they said -- who?s he? The first pope from Eastern Europe. The first non-Italian pope since 1522. A consensus pope, born and forged not in one of the Renaissance cities of Italy but in Poland, the cauldron of 20th-century Europe, where Nazism, communism and the Holocaust had all left their bloody prints during his lifetime. A poet/philosopher/ditch digger/actor/downhill-skier pope whom the College of Cardinals evidently expected -- the man was only 58 years old, after all, and built like a rugby player -- would be leading their church into the 21st century...
...anti-totalitarian credentials ?- to denounce (and effectively wipe out) Liberation Theology, a Marxist-leaning Catholicism swelling up in the land of Che. Just last January it was Cuba, Il Papa face-to-face with El Jefe, quarrelling (rather adroitly) not so much with Castro?s vestigial brand of communism but with the low state of Cubans under it. "When was the last time a pope really seemed like a major player on the world stage?" asks Van Biema. John Paul II is, and his Vatican has become, worldly-wise and widely heard...
Heidegger was a towering philosopher but an odious man with Nazi sympathies. Whittaker Chambers was mostly right about communism and Alger Hiss, but he was a nasty piece of work and no one likes a snitch. Even Joe McCarthy may have been on to something, but he was a crude and cruel man who ruined people's lives for 48-point type. You might call this the When Bad People Spoil Good Things school of history...