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...products of this incumbent mentality influence the admixture of guts and guff that make up Al's political style. First, that he is practically a monument in his community lends a security to his ability to continue living a local political life. If someone is pretty certain he can be reelected, he can say things that verge on the outrageous or the absurd, so long as the man himself is not absurd. Second, incumbents find formulas that work for them, and they will stick by them as long as they carry some political benefit. One of the formulas...
...monument stands over Babi Yar; A drop sheer as a crude gravestone. -Yevgeni Yevtushenko, Babi...
...three decades poets, writers, musicians and at least one politician in the Soviet Union have called for a monument to be built at Babi Yar, a desolate ravine near Kiev that is a worldwide symbol of Jewish martyrdom. There, on Sept. 29-30, 1941, a 150-man SS extermination team assembled the Jews of the German-occupied capital of the Ukraine, stripped them naked, lined them up on the edge of the ravine and machine-gunned them. Children were thrown into the ravine alive. The team halted only long enough to shovel sand over each layer of bodies. When...
Silent Screams. Yet all efforts to memorialize the victims foundered on the Kremlin's unwillingness to acknowledge that Jews were particular targets of the Nazis. The postwar party chief in the Ukraine, Nikita Khrushchev, publicly promised to erect a monument at Babi Yar, but his plan was forestalled by Stalin's anti-Semitic drives. Even after Khrushchev himself took power in Moscow, Babi Yar remained a refuse-strewn wasteland. Poet Yevtushenko was fiercely rebuked for singling out Jews as victims of the massacre. So was Composer Dimitri Shostakovich, who made Babi Yar a theme of his 13th Symphony...
Still, last summer construction of a monument near the ravine began. Yet now that the work has been completed, it is clear that there has still been no policy reversal in the Kremlin. Standing 50 ft. high, the memorial consists of eleven bronze statues representing such figures as a Communist guerrilla fighter, a Red Army soldier with clenched fist, and a sailor shielding an old woman. A plaque reads: "Here in 1941-1943 the German Fascist invaders executed over 100,000 citizens of Kiev and prisoners of war." The Jews are nowhere mentioned or portrayed, thus underscoring rather than answering...