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...stroll among the palmettos, ! cypresses and golden rain trees lining the town's crooked streets. Though it was not far from Yalta that Mikhail Gorbachev spent three days under house arrest last August during the coup attempt, the resort is best remembered as the site where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin convened to redraw the map of Europe. That was 47 years ago, when the Crimea fell unquestionably within the Kremlin's empire and only dreamers wasted time imagining a world without the Soviet Union...
...There will never be negotiations," says Vladimir Kryzhanovsky, Ukraine's ambassador to Moscow. To negotiate, he argues, would open a Pandora's box by calling into question all the myriad treaties and border determinations made during 74 years of Soviet rule. "If we negate everything that was done under Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev, then we must negate all existing borders," he says. "And that could only lead to a new world...
...great tradition of Stalin andJoseph McCarthy when he says that writing a parodyis an act of terrorism," Dershowitz said. "I'mopposed to ... faculty members who use theirstatus as faculty members to terrorize studentsand to frighten them away from exercising theirfree speech...
Historian Alan Bullock compares the evils of Hitler and Stalin...
Russia, under Stalin's direction, was Hitler's nemesis in World War II. But while that war freed most of Germany from despotism, the shackles of Stalinism stayed in place in the Soviet Union for another 40 years. Russia is still trying to find its way toward democracy. Bullock maintains that only a confluence of violent upheavals and unusual leaders can produce a Hitler or a Stalin, and "such occasions are not common." But it has happened within living memory, and Bullock's monumental history reminds us how unwise it would be to conclude it cannot happen again...