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Whenever the tanks stopped, the interrogations began?surely some of history's most curious confrontations between conqueror and conquered. Hounded by questions, many of the Russians???some of whom were youths no older than 18?looked nervous and stared blankly into the distance to avoid further embarrassment. A few told crowds in the street that they were in Czechoslovakia to protect the people from "counterrevolution" or the "re actionaries" in West Germany. But many had little notion of their mission and were apologetic. "We are only following orders," a youthful paratrooper said to an irate questioner in Prague. "We have...
...Special Quality. Hungarians are not very good plotters. The art of conspiracy?so well understood, practiced and detected by the Russians???would have been self-defeating in their struggle. What the Hungarians, a people of a special heritage and a unique language, did have was an overpowering common impulse, spirit or emotion, which suddenly united all classes against their enemy without the necessity of planning or leadership. The emotion had its origin in shared sufferings under the Russian police state, but it was made strong and enduring because it was tempered by that impracticable and, in Marxist terms, most despised...
...Words Are Not Enough. More than 16½ million words have been filed from Nurnberg. The Russians???who filed almost every document?topped both the Britons and the Americans. As world interest in the trials varied, so did the number of newsmen; at one point this summer there were only five Americans left...
...wind knocked out of her so badly as Russia. For years after the War nothing escaped her epileptically clenched teeth but the mutter of revolutionary debate. Lately she has disgorged a few novels, most of them drearily propagandist, which have been filtered into translation. Quiet Street, a novel about Russians???not Communists, not Mensheviki, not Whites?is perhaps a sign that she is regaining her literary faculties...
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