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...need urgent help in the form of hard currency to provide consumer goods for the market and speed up the move toward a convertible ruble. They want to move faster, but they cannot do so without a stabilizing fund of several billion dollars. If you have given aid to Poland and Hungary, Russia certainly deserves...
Walesa moved reluctantly because Olszewski favors softening the radical anti-inflation policies that have been hailed abroad for pushing Poland into a market economy but are despised at home for causing 10% unemployment and threatening the survival of hundreds of state-owned businesses. Figuring that Poland had to bear economic pain in any case, Walesa has generally supported moving to a free market as quickly as possible. The choice may have been an effort to garner the center-right's support for laws to strengthen presidential powers, including more say in naming the Cabinet...
...Spiegelman dwelt upon Vladek's foibles, however, he and his readers learned about pre-war Jewish life in Poland. By the end of Maus I, Spiegelman had described more than just the facts about Vladek's life--the reader could see his factory, expropriated by the Nazis; sense his daily life and the makeup of his surroundings; and know his habits and his manner of speech...
Those who just put down the paper in disgust after muttering something about "cheapening history" obviously did not read Maus I. That book, subtitled, "My Father Bleeds History," poignantly recounted Spiegelman's father Vladek's family life in Poland preceding his deportation to Auschwitz...
From France to the Soviet Union, Poland to Czechoslovakia, underground movements harried the Germans -- sometimes at a horrendous cost. On May 27, 1942, two Czechoslovak agents based in London who had been parachuted into Czechoslovakia five months earlier were activated. Their target: Reinhard Heydrich, "the Butcher of Prague," the SS Obergruppenfuhrer who was a major organizer of the Holocaust that was engulfing Europe's Jews. The Czechoslovaks killed Heydrich in a bomb attack as he drove into Prague, but the retribution was terrible: the Nazis murdered 1,300 Czechoslovaks immediately; 3,000 Jews were sent to Poland to be killed...