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...once bellowing that Communism would "bury" America. He served the party and the government with an iron hand, and in the 1930s helped send thousands to slave labor camps. Despite that, he is remembered as the crucial transitional figure who led the Soviet Union from an evil era of Stalinist tyranny toward a more moderate form of Communism. Near the end of his life, in the controversial reminiscences that restored him to the center of the international stage, he observed of his country's stifling travel restrictions: "Why should we build a good life and then keep our borders...
Solzhenitsyn's friends reacted more angrily, says Hegge; they pointed out that Jarring had given an embassy dinner for the Stalinist novelist Mikhail Sholokhov when he won the prize in 1965. The offense was compounded, they felt, by the fact that Sholokhov had compared Solzhenitsyn to a "Colorado beetle" that should be "exterminated...
...reflective, robust 62, Losey lives comfortably in London's Chelsea with his fourth wife. He is planning to film a biography of Leon Trotsky, and spent some time recently in Mexico City with Artist David Siqueiros, who as a Stalinist had been involved in an attempt on Trotsky's life. "How are you going to make a true film?" Siqueiros asked him. "If it was true, how would any film company let you make...
...very surprising, not to say disheartening, to see an imitation New Wave film coming out of the state film institute of a Communist country. True, it's evidence that Cuba's cultural and ideological policies aren't Stalinist- Memories, far from being Marxist, is a movie made about a bourgeois consciousness by bourgeois consciousness for bourgeois consciousness. So one could try to explain it as an attempt to help the bourgeoisie understand socialist Cuba, or vice versa. But there it certainly fails...
...surprising in a nation where invaders are hailed as liberators, popular leaders have become the publicly disgraced, and history is rewritten. The only hopeful sign is that Husák so far has successfully avoided the demands of hard-liners for show trials and complete rehabilitation of the old Stalinist leadership...