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Payne, to his credit, does something more than that. A relentless biographer (Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Gandhi), he tackled his present subject without benefit of any fresh interviewing, but with the kind of wide-eyed zest that produces a sort of Boy's Life of Genghis Khan. There goes the youthful, effervescent Adolf trotting off to school at the local Benedictine Abbey at Lambach and passing by an old abbot's pet insignia, the swastika.* Here he comes, voraciously reading the latest sauerkraut western by Bavarian Author Karl May, whose genocidal hero Old Shatterhand was busy exterminating the insidious...
Something far more banal was also at play, however-an invincibly ignorant pride. One of the saddest of the new books is called Against Stalin and Hitler (John Day; $8.95). The author, a former Eastern Front officer named Wilfried Strik-Strikfeldt tells how the advancing Germans failed to enlist the struggling Russian Liberation Movement in their assault on Stalin's forces...
...exiles' Cézannes, Picassos, Matisses, Gaugins and Van Goghs-356 paintings in all-were appropriated by the state and divided between the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Hermitage in Leningrad. The fortunes of these unrivaled hoards have fluctuated with politics. Stalin had them banished to the cellars as decadent Western formalism. After 1954, the collections were slowly reinstated, and now the Soviet Union has begun to use them as a cautiously played trump in the diplomatic game of cultural exchange...
...leader of Canada's Communist Party from 1929 to 1962; of a stroke; in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The British-born son of a Tory pub owner. Buck immigrated to Canada in 1912 and helped launch the party nine years later. He faithfully toed the Kremlin line on everything from Stalin's prewar purges to the 1956 invasion of Hungary. Although the party managed to poll 111,892 votes in a 1945 federal election, the number of Communists in Canada had dwindled to fewer than 6,000 by the time he gave up the leadership for the honorary title...
Exactly who buys the dragon's teeth or not, and why, should stay secret. It is fair to say, though, that Sulzberger offers a fine, new explanation for the moment and method of Joseph Stalin's demise. Another of his best moments is a debate between General Gruenther (a Catholic) and Sasounian about whether or not it would be murder to dump the dragon's teeth into the depths of the North Atlantic...