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...Marxist-Leninist internationalism on their side to justify an invasion, but 36 years of precedents as well. Many of these men, after all, have careers that stretch back to 1945 and the wartime Allied conference at Yalta, which established a Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. In Joseph Stalin's eyes, Poland was the most important part of that sphere because it is a buffer between Russia and Germany...
...indifferent party member, all too aware of disparities in Soviet society, he runs contrary to official wishes, pursuing his quarry through Politburo corridors and down provincial streets. It is a lethal quest. The three corpses are soon joined by others, some innocent, some who seem to have tumbled from Stalin's overcoat...
...battle gear I followed Stalin to Mayakovsky Station and stood by his side to hear his greatest speech, words that turned the Fascist tide even as they shelled the city overhead ...' His hand shot out to restrain Arkady from going. 'I gave you a name like that, and you come here, a petty detective, to ask about a coward who spent his war hiding in packing cases? Some common snoop, is that all you are?' Arkady rose, more exhausted than he could have imagined, and stumbled on the way to the library door...
...former secret police headquarters in Warsaw seemed respectable enough. The veterans had ostensibly come to pay homage to the victims of Stalinist terror in Poland in the early '50s. But a disturbing anti-Semitic strain began to sound through the nationalistic rhetoric. Orators singled out Jews in the Stalin-era Polish secret police and government as the torturers and murderers of "Polish patriots." Declared a former soldier in Poland's Home Army: "Those Jewish nationalists made a bloodbath. Let us block the way to power of the next generation of Zionists." Handbills with the slogan KEEP SOLIDARITY POLISH...
Cronkite is an old-fashioned newspaperman, a good one and proud of it. He was in the first group of war correspondents to fly a bombing mission over Germany. After the war, he covered Stalin's bleak and hostile Moscow for United Press. Out of his U.P. experience, and his concern that so many millions get their news only from TV, Cronkite tries to see to it that CBS runs more news items, even brief ones, than the other networks. He persists in the mannerisms and discipline of the older medium as if this guarantees his integrity...