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Word: ostrovityanov (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then his inquisitors got tougher. His former fellow academician, K. V. Ostrovityanov, warned: "You must know from the history of our party what grave consequences result from stubborn insistence on one's own errors . . ." Finally, last week, like hundreds of other Soviet intellectuals, Varga decided, things being as they are, it was time to retract. Admitting that he had not "acted cleverly," he dutifully sent in his recantation, for the current issue of Questions of Economics. It sounded familiar-almost as though the Russians now had printed forms for these occasions. Wrote Varga: "I formed a whole chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Better Late Than Never | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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