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...Figleaf. It would be a great mistake to underrate the importance of ideology in the official Soviet psychology. Ideology is the only positive feature in a regime which has otherwise brought little but harshness, cruelty and physical misery to the human beings who have fallen within the range of its influence. In the name of ideology, it has committed acts which, deprived of any ideological motive, could be classified only with the most stupendous crimes in the history of mankind...
Ideology is the figleaf of Soviet respectability. Tear it away, and the Russian leaders stand exposed as only the last of the long series of cruel and wasteful rulers who have driven a great people from one military ordeal to another throughout the course of centuries in order to assure the security of their own oppressive regimes. No one is more aware of this than the Soviet leaders themselves; and no one is more conscious than they of the terrible responsibility they bear to the doctrine of Marxism for the acts they have perpetrated in its name...
Sculptor Salemme dutifully applied a plaster figleaf as a poultice to outraged sensibilities. The members of the art committee viewed the amended Robeson, sadly shook their heads...