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...drama herebeyond the simple one of prisoner and policeis that between one political generation and another. On the one hand are the pre-Stalinist revolutionaries, Rubashov and his cynical inquisitor Ivanovmen who only closed their minds after philosophy had opened them; who abandoned all morality for what seemed to them moral reasons; who were Communists enough to denounce pity, but men enough to understand it. On the other hand, there is the young, completely Sovietized Gletkin whose fanaticism signifies not intensity of feeling but all inability to feel, who is more mechanism than organism...
Yugoslavia, a dictatorship as absolute as Stalinist Russia or Franco Spain, needs economic help badly. All summer the sun has baked its rich black earth uninterruptedly to produce the worst famine in generations. Many peasants have not even bothered to harvest their dismal crops despite compulsory delivery quotas ordered by the government. They have slaughtered livestock for want of feed...
...Yugoslavia this year. Corn, the main harvest, was only half that of last year; wheat was down 30%, potatoes 70%. Total loss: 4,000,000 tons of foodstuffs and animal fodder. A winter famine would cut the capacity of Marshal Tito's independent Communist government to resist Stalinist aggression...
Muddled Comrades. Buried in the Stalinist verbiage was an anecdote that non-Marxists could understand. Wrote Stalin: "We had for some time Marxists who asserted that the railways which remained in our country after the October Revolution were bourgeois railways . . . not worthy of us Marxists; that these railways should be torn up and new ones built-proletarian railways. This earned for the critics the name of Troglodytes. Such a primitive, anarchic view of society [as of] language. . . has nothing to do with Marxism . . . but undoubtedly exists in the minds of some of our muddled comrades...
...unions, dragoons "innocent" intellectuals into front groups, keeps rank & filers dizzy with endless meetings, and chains its functionaries to rigid adherence to the Moscow line. Among Budenz' recollections: how Daily Worker staffers would quake in fear of being reprimanded by undercover Moscow agents for some infinitesimal deviation from Stalinist orthodoxy...