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...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 consciusnesses for bourgeois consciousnesses. 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...
...Confession is the latest effort of the brilliant Greek director Costa-Gavras, who made Z. The new film is savage, methodical and painstakingly realistic; it is also static, relentless and thoroughly dispiriting. It closely documents the horror of a staged Stalinist purge trial, yet lacks the creative energy to convey the vibrancy of terror...
...joined the resistance movement under the Soviet aegis. At war's end, he became First Secretary of the party and a minister in Poland's new Communist-dominated Government of National Unity. But Gomulka, an ardent nationalist as well as a Communist, soon ran afoul of the Stalinist tendencies in the Polish party. He had long insisted that his homeland must follow the "Polish road to Socialism," that it could not imitate the Soviet Union. He opposed collectivization and supported Tito. For this behavior he was forced to acknowledge "selfcriticism" in 1949 and was relieved of his posts...
Licko first met Solzhenitsyn in 1967, when he called on the writer at his former home in Ryazan, a city that is out of bounds to foreigners. Unaware that Licko had held a top post in the Slovak Central Committee during the Stalinist terror. Solzhenitsyn accorded him an interview-the first he had ever given a foreigner. On the strength of the interview, which was published in several European countries, Licko later visited London, where he boasted of his supposed intimacy with Solzhenitsyn; he also signed an affidavit saying that the author had entrusted him with a manuscript of Cancer...
...placed authentic manuscripts in the West, often to try to convict the authors of anti-Soviet propaganda. British Journalist Louis Herren speculated that any KGB involvement might reflect a split between the organization's hard-liners and a more moderate faction that is anxious to counter the neo-Stalinist tendencies of the present leadership with Khrushchev's anti-Stalinist views...