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...Soviet Writers' Union," Aksyonov ironically observes. A member of the official union for 18 years and the U.S.S.R.'s most popular living novelist, Aksyonov was pressured to leave the country when he edited an anthology of unorthodox Russian writing that the union deemed subversive. The collection, entitled Metropol, which includes an excerpt of a comic play by Aksyonov, was published in the U.S. by W.W.Norton...
...past two years, however, the authorities have systematically expunged Aksyonov's name from the annals of contemporary Russian letters. The reasons were not hard to find. In addition to his writing, he had been attempting to challenge Soviet censorship. His anthology of unorthodox Russian writing, Metropol, was denounced in the Soviet press as salacious and subversive. The Soviet secret police, the KGB, began to hound him in an effort to drive him into exile. In 1980, Aksyonov and his wife Maya succumbed to pressure and left the Soviet Union. His citizenship was then taken away by the Supreme Soviet...
...pattern attends the sale of sex. Beate Uhse has one of her famous "supermarkets" beside the ruin of the Memorial church, its posters offering "sunshine." Another shop in Europa Center displays whips beside the usual manuals and salves. Porno flicks, run continuously everywhere, including the once great screen palace "Metropol," with towers, great arches, and status in its stucco front...
...fortnight ago, as the SED celebrated its tenth anniversary in East Berlin's Metropol theater, a count by West German Socialists showed that 657 top Socialist leaders were in East German or Soviet prisons. In the lower echelons, the number of former Socialists jailed or killed could only be estimated, but it amounted to thousands. Socialists had been removed from all positions of importance in East Germany. Communist in all but name were Grotewohl, now the jowly Premier of East Germany, and Ebert (son of the Weimar Republic's first President), now the alcoholic mayor of East Berlin...
...Hans Rott, onetime Austrian Secretary of State for Labor, mentioned the half-forgotten name of a politician who once tried to double-cross Hitler at his own game: Kurt von Schuschnigg. In a heatless, lightless cell on the top floor of the Gestapo headquarters in Vienna's dingy Metropol Hotel. Austria's last Chancellor, doomed to slow death, is almost blind, according to Rott, as a result of Gestapo torture...