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...Hook's work, the correct response will require only one word change: Any year, please. As these 21 feisty essays demonstrate, over the past four decades the teacher-philosopher has seen no reason to alter his course. He did not need Alexander Solzhenitsyn to inform him of the Gulag; back in the '30s Hook condemned the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, nations whose politics employed "vicious ersatz theologies." The Supreme Court's pendulum decisions on criminal justice have found Hook unchanged; he has long advocated the rights of the victim: "When we read that a man whose...
...Union. Lev Kopelev, 67, an internationally known scholar of German literature, was accused in Sovietskaya Rossia of turning his Moscow flat "into a nest of ideological subversion and a place for meetings with Western emissaries." The paper also charged that Kopelev, a Jew who spent ten years in the Gulag under Stalin, "hates his homeland" and is "an enemy of the socialist system...
...served as the model for the kindly Communist character Lev Rubin in Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel The First Circle. After Stalin's death, all charges were lifted against Kopelev. Last week, however, Kopelev packed himself a small suitcase in readiness for yet another possible trip to the Gulag...
That was too much for the Kremlin. Sakharov's earlier critiques of Soviet totalitarianism, and his impassioned pleas br political prisoners in the Gulag had long enraged the Soviet leaders. But they had been reluctant to arrest so famous a dissident for fear of jeopardizing the advantages of détente, including trade with the U.S. After the invasion of Afghanistan and Washington's punitive embargoes, the Soviets felt free to put Sakharov away. As one top State Department analyst explained the arrest: "Moscow figured there wasn't much more to lose because there was nothing much...
...censure strikes Americans as profoundly unfair. Through their anger over Iran and Afghanistan, there also runs a thin current of self-pity. It bewilders Americans to be hated. It astonishes them to come off second best in a moral comparison with the Soviet Union, with the keepers of the Gulag and the Lubianka, with the oafish jailers of Eastern Europe...