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...Soviet propagandist's delight. The Soviets play the Nazi-West Germany theme night and day. It is false. West Germany's honorable history is its refutation. Why then a visit that cannot fail symbolically to affirm...
...strengthening democratic and pro-NATO forces in Germany is a laudable end, particularly in light of domestic and Soviet pressures on Germany over Euromissile deployment. But surely there are less delicate instruments than V-E day for reinforcing NATO. And surely there are limits to alliance politics. At this point President Reagan is reluctant to change his plans because of the acute embarrassment it would cause the German government. But that injury is certain to be more transient than the injury to memory that would result from sticking to his plans...
Ninety thousand came to JFK, 72,000 to Wembley. More than a billion people, including those in the Soviet Union, could have tuned in on live satellite broadcasts to watch over 60 of the world's most prominent rock acts. All together, this dream was called Live Aid. The breadth and heart of it were great...
...R.S.C. has been equally innovative with Breaking the Silence, a quasi-biographical work that centers on Playwright Stephen Poliakoff s grandfather, a Russian Jewish aristocrat who refuses to accept the changes that Lenin's Soviet revolution have brought. Forced to live in near squalor on a railway carriage while assigned as a roving inspector, he stubbornly devotes all his energies to developing a talking motion picture. Although he is an untrained amateur, there are glints of genius in him. The play deftly balances his private quest against vast social change, and culminates in an agonizing exile from a homeland that...
...realize it is fashionable to blame the Soviets for just about everything, but I was surprised to see your chart depicting immigration to the U.S. ascribe anti-Jewish pogroms to the U.S.S.R. in the 1880s. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was not established until after 1917. Although czarist Russian officials encouraged anti-Semitism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the last pogroms were conducted by anti-Bolshevik groups in the Ukraine and White Russia prior to full consolidation of Communist control. William Bollinger Los Angeles...