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Satanic Parody. As Pope, Kiril must confront, as did his predecessor, the specter of atheistic Communism. But he must do so in an unprecedented way, for he bears on his face, hands and back, the scars of Communist torture. His interrogator in a Siberian prison was Kamenev, who has become head of the Soviets. The Pope, in fact, is thus a failed product of (or triumphant escapee from) that satanic parody of the confessional-the brainwashing process wherein men confess to crimes they have not committed to men who have no power to absolve. Yet Pope and Commissar understand...
...Kamenev speaks-and is allowed to speak well-for the humanistic religion of man's perfectibility on earth. The Pope speaks for man's spiritual nature. When a correspondence ensues between the two. there is dismay among those who think that the man in the Vatican has weakened in intransigence toward the visible enemy of the church. Peace is the ostensible subject of the Vatican-Kremlin secret exchanges, which are broadened to include the President of the U.S.. known cryptically as "Robert...
World Jewry has always kept an uneasy eye on Russia's erratic treatment of Jews. Some of the early leaders of Communism (Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Litvinoff and Kaganovich) were Jews, but Stalin later made Jewish "cosmopolitanism" a dangerous charge. Russia competed with the U.S. to be the first to recognize the infant Israeli state in 1948-only to switch later to all-out support of the Arab quarrel against Israel. Today the 3,000,000 Jews who still live in Russia are warned to merge themselves completely in Soviet society (while still carrying documents designating them as Jews...
...losers have all been banished to the sticks. That old Kremlin durable, Molotov, presented his credentials as Ambassador to Outer Mongolia last week, obviously aware that the world was enjoying his humiliation. But he was probably more concerned by the knowledge that another loser before him, Lev Kamenev, had for a time seemingly flourished as Soviet Ambassador to Italy, only to be executed a few years later by Stalin. Among Khrushchev's other victims, Dmitry Shepilov, who rose swiftly but guessed wrong, was reportedly schoolteaching; Kaganovich was said to be running a cement factory...
KHRUSHCHEV began his denunciation of Stalin by revealing two suppressed letters. One was written by Lenin's wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, to Lev Kamenev, chief of the Politburo: "I beg of you to protect me from rude interference with my private life and from vile invectives and threats [by Stalin]." Lenin wrote direct to Stalin: "You permitted yourself a rude summons of my wife to the telephone and a rude reprimand of her ... I have no intention to forget so easily that which is being done against me ... I ask you therefore that you weigh carefully whether you are agreeable...