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Unwilling to resort to Stalin's mass purges and executions, Soviet officials have dismissed dissenters from their jobs, sent them to forced-labor camps, and confined them to prison mental institutions. Their most recent method appears to be a kind of involuntary exile: they allow a dissenter to travel abroad and then snatch away his passport. Last week, after eight months of research in Britain, Zhores Medvedev, a geneticist and gerontologist of international reputation, was called to the Soviet embassy in London where his passport was revoked and he was told that he was no longer a Soviet citizen...
Medvedev had long been an irritant to the Soviet authorities. His first sin, in 1969, was to write The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko, a chronicle of Stalin's favorite scientist, a crackpot biologist who was the final, arbitrary word in Russian genetics for more than two decades. His second sin, in 1971, was to write The Medvedev Papers, a tale of Soviet censorship and suppression of intellectuals. Neither book was published in the U.S.S.R., but Soviet officials were so angered by their publication in the West that they finally confined Medvedev to a madhouse for what they...
...some of the most controversial decisions in the dubious peacemaking toward the end of World War II. Top-secret wartime papers made public this month by the British Foreign Office throw a new light on how Great Britain's Winston Churchill and the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin divided Europe during private talks in Moscow in October...
Churchill was worried that the U.S. might be tempted to return Britain's crown colony of Hong Kong to China as a reward to the Chinese for their part in the struggle against Japan. Thus he wanted Stalin's support for the continuation of the British Empire. In return, as Churchill has written in his memoirs, he agreed to recognize the Soviet Union's sphere of dominant influence in Eastern Europe. What Churchill did not disclose in his memoirs was the earthy dialogue between him and Stalin while they decided the fate of tens of millions...
...Communist Party history, he proved the ruthless loyalty that made him the trusted instrument of the Soviets. During the Spanish Civil War he went to Spain and helped liquidate the Communists who deviated from the Stalinist line. During the 1930s Ulbricht was suspected of fingering German Communists for Stalin's bloody purges. He fought in the Battle of Stalingrad in his own way-by directing propaganda appeals to undermine the morale of the German soldiers. Sentimentality was foreign to him. Though he had a brother in New York City and a daughter by his first wife...