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...Josef Stalin, Soviet dictator...
...police officer who arrested Anne Frank, for example. Others needed updating. In The Murderers Among Us, Wiesenthal located Treblinka Commandant Franz Stangl working at a Volkswagen plant in Sao Paulo; shortly after Wiesenthal's book appeared, Stangl was arrested and sent to prison. On the other hand, Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele, whom Wiesenthal had described as hiding in Paraguay, was subsequently found to have drowned in & Brazil (though Wiesenthal continues to suspect that he is still alive...
...different interpretations of Eastern European reform suggests, the far left in the U.S. is deeply divided over Marxist theory. Some embrace Josef Stalin, others Leon Trotsky. One group rejects both and says only Lenin correctly interpreted Marx...
Lithuanians say they want to restore the independence they had between the world wars. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin absorbed Lithuania along with the two other Baltic states, Latvia and Estonia, in 1940 under a secret agreement with Nazi Germany...
...Bulgarian Communist Party last week expelled Todor Zhivkov, its leader for 35 years, and announced that free elections would be held in May. When the parliament postponed until January a vote on ending the Communist Party's monopoly of power, 50,000 jeering protesters encircled the parliament building. As Josef Joffe, foreign editor of the Suddeutsche Zeitung, observed, "If only there weren't all these people in the streets . . . who will yet foul up many of the designs made by diplomats...