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...Screams. Yet all efforts to memorialize the victims foundered on the Kremlin's unwillingness to acknowledge that Jews were particular targets of the Nazis. The postwar party chief in the Ukraine, Nikita Khrushchev, publicly promised to erect a monument at Babi Yar, but his plan was forestalled by Stalin's anti-Semitic drives. Even after Khrushchev himself took power in Moscow, Babi Yar remained a refuse-strewn wasteland. Poet Yevtushenko was fiercely rebuked for singling out Jews as victims of the massacre. So was Composer Dimitri Shostakovich, who made Babi Yar a theme of his 13th Symphony. Soviet...
...mainly refugees from Communism. They often had to make their break suddenly, and even some of the most celebrated are motivated by a simple sense of survival. Svetlana Alliluyeva, only daughter of Joseph Stalin, now living quietly in Princeton, N.J., says that the very idea of revisiting her homeland would be "ridiculous, to think that someone who got out of prison would want to go back to prison." Czech Tennis Star Martina Navratilova, now playing at Wimbledon but resident in Los Angeles, says scornfully that native-born Americans "don't know what they've got. Anybody that complains about life...
...anything, the report on Cuba was even tougher; it claimed that the Castro regime had set up a network of prison camps similar to Stalin's infamous Gulag Archipelago. Kissinger in his speech observed that the report "confirmed our worst fears of Cuban behavior...
...largely a matter of the midnight knock on the door and a hasty trip to a labor camp, such cases at first glance will not seem very surprising. But in fact the U.S.S.R. has an elaborate and, on the surface, enlightened legal code that -since the days of Stalin-has customarily been followed. One of the fascinations of Courts of Terror is its depiction of a government in the tortuous process of subverting its own laws for reasons of propaganda and political expediency...
Berlinguer shows his "true," Stalinist colors at the end of the book: "You see," he says, announcing the coup to the Professor, "any truly revolutionary uprising . . . requires a brutal and painful rendering of the social fabric . . . Stalin, whom we no longer honor but have never forgotten . . . was merely a surgeon of history...