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...party's reforms were already affecting the country's political customs. Looking incongruously like Western politicians on the hustings, officials fanned out across the country last week to meet with factory-level party units and solicit their support. Applause was not always forthcoming. At the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Kania fielded sharp questions and criticisms from about 3,000 local party members. Demanded one worker: "Now we ask you, Comrade Kania, if you will help us carry out the renewal of the party and the nation. If not, we shall do it by ourselves." That bold assertion drew...
Harvard Professor Richard Pipes, a Polish emigre and currently Ronald Reagan's principal advisor on Soviet affairs, is the most extreme of the ideologues. In a typically demonic characterization of the Soviet Union, Pipes once wrote that "the Soviet Union had indeed been organized by Lenin from the beginning for the waging of total war and it is to this end that the Soviet government has taken into its hands a monopoly of national powers and resources." Pipes further claims that the Soviets are willing to risk the consequences of a general nuclear war for the sake of political objectives...
Leningrad is a city dominated by its namesake. The sign which appears on buildings that "Lenin is more alive than the living" is not an exaggeration. Lenin is very much the Soviet national icon. One can buy literally hundreds of different lapel pins or "znatchki" with Lenin's profile. Buildings, theaters, factories, ships, trains and squares are named after him. His name is invoked to justify all political actions and his ideas and actions are acknowledged for all positive achievements of the Soviet State. Even people who dream of emigrating consider him to have been a great man. They often...
While the inclusion of Lenin in everyday life in a sense politicizes everything, in fact, the Soviet people are very apolitical. They feel that they cannot influence political decisions in their own country and they assume that people abroad find their governments similarly unresponsive to their political wishes. While they realize that life elsewhere is generally "freer" than in the Soviet Union, they are highly influenced by propaganda which tells them that in the West crime is so rampant that merely being on the street is an invitation to murder. To a Russian the very term "freedom" implies a perjorative...
...then as it is now: cool it. But it is falling for the most part on deaf ears. Even Foot, a firebrand himself in his youth, has been overtaken by a new breed of militant British leftists. They are mostly youthful, largely middle-class ideologues who habitually spout Marx, Lenin and Trotsky but shun Soviet-style Communism. Combining pie-in-the-sky visions of a British Utopia with a pragmatic flair for nuts-and-bolts political organizing, they have driven a wedge deep into the 80-year-old Labor Party...