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...fortress was more vital to the defense of the Soviet nation than the enclave of battleships and guns at Kronstadt. Perched on an island in the Gulf of Fniland 20 miles off Petrograd, it guarded the naval approaches to Russia's largest and former capital city, and its capture could place an enemy within easy grasp of the country's industrial and intellectual center...
...sailors had defended the Bolsheviks during the civil war, and they had withstood heavy and constant bombardment of their island fortress in doing so. But in late 1920, as the conflict drew to a close, they were becoming highly sensitive to the wave of strikes and peasant revolts which began sweeping the country with the tightening of the government's reins. "A restless and independent breed who loathed all privilege and authority," Paul Avrich writes in Kronstadt 1921, "They seemed forever on the verge of exploding into open violence against their officers or against the central government, which they regarded...
...personal liberties. But the sailors never really attempted by themselves to spread their particular revolt, forcibly or otherwise. They leafletted sporadically in the Petrograd area and in the end felt somewhat betrayed by the city's inaction, but they never strove to move their experiment beyond the island fortress. They believed instead that the revolt would generate itself in most other areas, such were the depths of their confidence in spontaneous insurrection...
Last fall the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence painted an eerie picture of the urban future: downtown areas deserted after dark save for police patrols, apartment buildings ringed by private guards, whole cities terrified of strangers and infused with a fortress mentality. From Baltimore to Los Angeles, that future is closer at hand than anyone imagined. Banks and department stores are building inside parking garages to reduce muggings of nighttime workers. Downtown restaurants and theaters are closing early for lack of business. Vigilante groups and private security agencies are flourishing. Half the nation's 60 million...
...campfire every night and takes heavy pulls on his bottle of whisky to still his mighty but unrighteous lust. Screenwriter Albert Maltz would probably call this comic irony. After too many of these interludes, Eastwood delivers dynamite to some rebels and joins them in an attack on a fortress, during which the nun reveals herself as a true camp follower ("Well, I'll be a . . ."). MacLaine quickly shucks her habit, and Eastwood, after vanquishing the enemy, joins her in a hot tub, longing to make up for those nights of abstinence on the trail...