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...very things the Poles are striking for today-freedom to govern themselves, economic stability, sufficient food and fuel to survive-are strikingly similar to what Lenin sought when he created the structure that is now choking Poland. The circle is complete...
...motorized police units. They take their orders directly from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In December's crackdown, while the army cordoned off the trouble spots, ZOMO units broke up most of the demonstrations that took place after Jaruzelski imposed martial law. In Gdansk they burst into the Lenin shipyards to end a sit-in by the workers who had launched the independent Solidarity trade union in August 1980. When coal miners in the Wujek pit near the Silesian city of Katowice resisted martial law, it was the members of ZOMO who opened fire. The government admits that eight...
...Wojciech Jaruzelski announces that the "state of war" in his country has been downgraded to the "state of Mississippi." In the face of criticism from the West, Jaruzelski declares sternly, "This is no different from the United States, the Gulf region to be exact." Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk is reported churning out three sternwheelers a week...
Whom do they most admire in the world? "Beside our great chairman, Arafat," says Boutros, "there are Ho Chi Minh and Castro." For Jamila it is Lenin: "Because he made a new world for his people. He made them like themselves and work together." The question of the future is raised, and the three of them talk of Palestine's certain glory. Jamila offers something more: "I would put an end to the use of all nuclear weapons...
Liberal Marxists like Roy Medvedev, a Soviet historian who is frequently harassed by the authorities, indignantly reject the suggestion that Marxism was in any sense to blame for the terrors of Stalinism. But it is hard to deny that Marxism-particularly as interpreted by Lenin-provided many of the concepts, attitudes and institutions that made Stalinism possible. Ex-Communists such as Arthur Koestler, author of the famous anti-Stalinist novel Darkness at Noon, have argued persuasively that Communism is corrupt and corrupting because of the brutal way that power is often attained and maintained. As the absolute embodiment of both...