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Some drab-looking Yugoslavs endure family skirmishes during the postwar taffy pull between Stalin and Tito. No stars, no hardware, no ravishing landscapes, no shimmering sex. Two hours and 24 minutes long. Right, Maude--let's run out and see When Father Was Away on Business! As it happens, there is every reason to catch this endearing memory movie, which won the Palme d'Or at the 1985 Cannes International Film Festival. The memory is that of the Bosnian poet Abdulah Sidran, who fashioned his script from events affecting a Muslim community in Sarajevo from 1949 to 1952. The vision...
Yurchenko is believed to be the most senior KGB defector since the 1930s, when two generals in the Soviet intelligence service fled the U.S.S.R. during Stalin's purges. He was a top-ranking member of the KGB's first chief directorate; specifically, he was assigned to the K directorate, which is responsible for penetrating other intelligence services. From 1975 to 1980 he served in Washington as a first secretary at the Soviet embassy and presumably had knowledge of Soviet agents and moles in the U.S. After returning to Moscow, says one intelligence source, he handled liaison between...
...past 40 years, focusing on the cold war and U.S.-Soviet relations. Eight months in the making, 45/85 is a judiciously edited video parade filled with rare film footage, some of it broadcast for the first time. It also includes on-camera recollections of some 75 "witnesses," ranging from Stalin's interpreter to Ronald Reagan and his three White House predecessors...
...same breath, Yevtushenko mocked some of the policies of Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "Yevtushenko has always been very adept at knowing which way the political winds are blowing. Clearly, he has lent his literary voice to Gorbachev's campaign...
...payments go to a blocked account in the U.S., meaning the money cannot be transferred to any other country. For its part, Simon & Schuster is hardly worried about Castro's ability to fill three books. The Cuban leader has already generated more text in speeches and interviews than Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill combined...