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...Soviet Union, artists produced propaganda to prop up Joseph Stalin’s murderous regime...
...Whereas Soviet artists produced propaganda that directly supported Stalin’s regime, Italian literati during the 1920s and 1930s adopted a more hands-off, apathetic approach to the rise of Mussolini’s fascism. While many of Italy’s artists and intellectuals were in theory “liberal,” meaning sympathetic to the democratic monarchy, “liberal writers were totally absent from the political scene,” said Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Lino Pertile. “They did not think it was their business to meddle...
...WHAT'S GOING ON IN RUSSIA TODAY? I see challenges and successes, tremendous successes. You may know the famous book written in the late 1960s by Andrei Amalrik [Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?]. His nightmare scenario was not just one small Chechnya, but civil war on a wholesale scale. But the end of the communist era was three minutes of shooting at the Moscow White House, not three years of fighting. One trouble is that they have not created a standard, well-defined political structure. They still don't have ideologically well-defined political parties. You have...
...marks a "new period" in the war with Russia. There will be no negotiations or temporary halts in fighting, he said, vowing the war will end "only when the regime that generates and nourishes aggression against the Chechen state and Muslims of the Caucasus is finally annihilated." As the Soviet Union began to crumble in the early 1990s, Maskhadov, an artillery colonel, returned to Chechnya to mastermind the military strategy for its 1994-96 revolt against Russia. Elected Chechen President by a landslide in 1997, he quickly lost support for failing to stop the republic's descent into anarchy. After...
REGINA SPEKTOR - SOVIET KITSCH...