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...both a Buddhist novitiate and a Roman Catholic schoolboy. A mediocre student, he won a scholarship to study in Paris largely because so few candidates applied. There, the future communist leader read the works of Marx ("I didn't really understand them," he confessed) and, more usefully, a Stalinist political primer that urged "pitiless repression" of all enemies. Inspired in part by the French Revolution, Pol Pot's hotchpotch ideology was grounded in a warped version of Cambodian Buddhist theology and dreams of past national greatness. "If our people can make Angkor," he said, referring to the ancient Khmer empire...
...Shades of Stalin? The detention of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former chief executive of the Russian oil company Yukos, on charges of embezzlement, theft and tax evasion has alarmed the international community [Nov. 10]. The shadow of Stalinist repression is getting longer, but this time it is being cast by Russian President Vladimir Putin. How will Russian economic growth be affected by the arrest of the oligarch who was working to open links with the West? So far, nothing has happened, because investors still think Russia is a good place to put their money. But time will tell if Khodorkovsky's arrest...
REUNITED. HITOMI SOGA, 45, a Japanese woman abducted by North Korean agents in 1978, and her husband, CHARLES ROBERT JENKINS, 64, a former U.S. Army sergeant accused of deserting to the Stalinist state in 1965, and their daughters MIKA, 21, and BELINDA, 18; in Jakarta. Soga, who was kidnapped so she could teach Japanese to North Korean spies, hadn't seen her husband or daughters since October 2002, when Pyongyang let her and four other abductees return to Japan. When the family arrived at a Jakarta luxury hotel swarming with journalists, Jenkins, who has lived in North Korea for four...
...with the idea that Europe is indebted to the Americans because they saved us in 1944. The U.S. had a choice: a Nazi Europe, a Stalinist Europe, or entering World War II. The U.S. chose to come in because neither Nazism nor Stalinism was in the U.S.'s best interest. Europeans may be indebted to those G.I.s who fought here 60 years ago but certainly not to the Bush Administration. Pascal Duruisseau Nivelles, Belgium...
...with the idea that Europe is indebted to the Americans because they saved us in 1944. The U.S. had a choice: a Nazi Europe, a Stalinist Europe or entering World War II. Neither Nazism nor Stalinism was in the U.S.'s best interest, so it entered the war. Europeans may be indebted to those G.I.s who fought here 60 years ago but certainly not to the Bush Administration. PASCAL DURUISSEAU Nivelles, Belgium...