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...This World mixes MTV-style camerabatics with the more staid tools of documentary style: time-and-place IDs, animated maps and a tendentious narrator who intones, "It is estimated that the U.S. spent $7.9 billion to bomb Afghanistan in 2001." Thanks for the stat, but we'd swear that Soviet soldiers, Taliban clerics, al-Qaeda mischiefmakers and one or two fratricidal chieftains all had a hand in causing the misery in Afghanistan...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, no supporter of the Chechen struggle, writes in 1973's The Gulag Archipelago that of all the people in the Soviet camps and in exile, the Chechens were from the "one nation which would not give in, would not acquire the mental habits of submission." The Chechens have lived up to that description. Unlike President Bush with Iraq, Putin can make sure Russians are not reminded of the Chechnya quagmire on a daily basis on TV. But silence is no solution. "I am here because it's the only job I know how to do," says Mikhail...
...later years, Kazan was one of those. He was never forgiven for identifying himself and a few old friends as onetime communists before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. Tributes to the old lion were booed, boycotted, canceled. His enemies forgot that even belated opposition to Soviet communism at its most rapacious could be an act of principle as well as expediency--and that an artist's most telling testimony is his work. By that standard, Kazan was an admirable American original. --By Richard Corliss
...Peabody towers. To an extent, the success of a work of architecture can be gauged by the strength of opinions it evokes—positive and negative. For many, Sert’s buildings are distinctly urban, Modernist and concrete and recall images of brutalist “Soviet bloc” housing. Indeed, Sert’s Harvard projects were too cosmopolitan for Cambridge in the 1950s and 60s—and probably still are today...
...governments of many former Soviet countries have sold state-owned property to the public, including foreign investors, through privatization vouchers and options...