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...born wife of oldtime Nation Correspondent Louis Fischer, revisited Russia in 1922 and lived in Moscow from 1927 to 1939. In My Lives in Russia (TIME, June 19, 1944), she told how she had changed from an enthusiastic partisan of the Soviet Union into a horrified witness of the Stalinist police state...
...Resisters. When De Pontillac prepares his bullies to search for "their load of Jewish meat," posters of protest, mute and futile gestures though they are, appear on the city's walls. They are the work of Marc Laverne, leader of an anti-Stalinist leftist group, a man so imbued with revolutionary fatalism that he seems like a disembodied symbol of rebellion. More human than Laverne is Ivan Stepanoff, an Old Bolshevik who has miraculously escaped from Stalin's prisons and who feels himself increasingly a historical anachronism. When Stepanoff is arrested, "his first concrete thought [takes] the form...
Died. Victor Lvovich Kilbalchich (pen name: "Victor Serge"), 56, former Communist journalist, Trotskyite anti-Stalinist (Russia 20 Years After); of a heart attack; in Mexico City. A member of the Communist International's first Congress in 1919, Serge was managing editor of its official theoretical organ, Communist International. He was jailed briefly in 1928 by the GPU, exiled to Siberia in 1933, released in 1936 following a hullabaloo by Europe's leading writers...
...which stands the Arch of Triumph. At 9 p.m. in the Salle Wiagram an organization called "The League for the Rights of Peoples Oppressed by the Soviets" had scheduled a rally at which Polish, Rumanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Yugoslav refugees would tell what things were like under the Stalinist boot. That morning the Communist paper L'Humanité had summoned the faithful to break up the meeting. "Everyone to the Wagram tonight at 7! Silence to the insulters of the Soviet Union! The way to prevent the meeting is to get there first...
...Sister Ruth apparently loves neither one and is loved by neither. Onetime leader of Germany's Communists, she was tossed out of the party in 1926 and now edits an anti-Stalinist newsletter in the U.S. Gerhart she has described as "the perfect terrorist type," Hanns "a Communist in every philosophical sense of the word." Hanns in turn calls her his "former sister" and Gerhart refers to her as a member of a "rogue and rat gallery...