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...LATE 1930S A HARVARD STUDENT TRAVELED TO Europe to see its brutal dictatorships firsthand. He visited Mussolini's Italy, Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Germany. Writing in his diary, the young man confided that he had come "to the decision that Facism ((sic)) is the thing for Germany and Italy, Communism for Russia and Democracy for America and England." But when he ran for President in 1960, John F. Kennedy never had to explain that isolationist view. Nor would raising the issue have made much sense, because the mature Kennedy had long since outgrown the jottings...
...Joseph Stalin...
...family and his middle-class merchant father; acquaintances remember a boy who poured his energies into books. At age 10 he was beaten by police breaking up a strike, and as a university student he came under the influence of a Communist philosopher and a painter who regarded Stalin as insufficiently revolutionary. In 1962 Guzman was given a philosophy post at Huamanga University in Ayacucho, where he used his teaching pulpit to indoctrinate students. He was profoundly influenced by Mao's Cultural Revolution, which he witnessed firsthand. "At some point," says journalist Gustavo Gorriti, "he persuaded himself that...
Born Judith Nisse in Riga, Latvia, she and her family traveled across the former Soviet Union in the early part of World War II just before Latvia was annexed. The Jewish family fled both Stalin and Hitler and eventually landed in Sweden and Japan...
...regime itself is in an advanced stage of dry rot. Imagine the Soviet Union if Stalin were still alive and in charge at age 112: that is North Korea, which outsiders have mockingly dubbed "the world's last socialist theme park." It has had no Khrushchev, not even a Brezhnev, never mind a Gorbachev. It has only its founding dictator, Kim Il Sung, who is 80 and failing. "The Great Leader" has designated his son, "the Dear Leader," heir to the throne. But a succession struggle may already have begun...