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...Shades of Stalin? The detention of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former chief executive of the Russian oil company Yukos, on charges of embezzlement, theft and tax evasion has alarmed the international community [Nov. 10]. The shadow of Stalinist repression is getting longer, but this time it is being cast by Russian President Vladimir Putin. How will Russian economic growth be affected by the arrest of the oligarch who was working to open links with the West? So far, nothing has happened, because investors still think Russia is a good place to put their money. But time will tell if Khodorkovsky's arrest...
...joke in my last column. It happens that I?m a fan of the language, people; in my youth I had an Esperanto dictionary. And I know that Esperanto was approved as the world?s language by a majority of League of Nations delegates, and denounced by Hitler and Stalin...
...Stalin or Hitler could kill millions of people,” Nye said. “But a pathological individual previously required a totalitarian framework...
...from dozens of wine bottles on the station's shelves is Adolf Hitler, his right arm outstretched in the familiar Nazi salute. Alongside him is a bottle bearing a portrait of SS chief Heinrich Himmler, organizer of the mass murder of 6 million European Jews. Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini are there as well, staring out from hundreds of bottles of Merlot, Burgundy, Cabernet Sauvignon and the like - yours for a mere 311. I am aghast. It's not, after all, every day that one is confronted with the opportunity to buy a bottle of wine bearing images...
...Jong Il," an exhibition that will run at Rotterdam's Kunsthal museum until Aug. 29, offers a rare and fascinating look at the captive artists' spin on life in the Hermit Kingdom. The 285 works on display are relatively recent, but they might easily have come from Stalin's Soviet Union or Mao's China. The North Korean art clock seems to have stopped circa 1930-50, and the impression that emerges from the exhibition is of a remote, sad and strangely poignant land...