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...might be interested to see how an airbrush can be used to render even an Empress an unperson...
...patriotism. To silence him, the government revoked his passport, branded him a subversive, and in effect forced him to leave the U.S. in order to gain employment. In short, the workings of American democracy were such that an internationally known artist and political activist was turned into an unperson in his own country...
...look in the early years of the post-Stalin era. For more than a decade, he was a member of the Soviet Union's ruling elite. Yet by the time he died last week at age 79 after a long illness, Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin had become an unperson in his homeland, an ignored and forgotten figure who in his last years idled away his time strolling along Moscow's boulevards and watching chess games in the park. Izvestia devoted only a paragraph to his obituary and no officials attended the perfunctory 30-minute funeral service...
...book's best chapter, "View of an Unperson," Fest explores the ways in which Hitler's own mesmerizing public spectacles-especially the death-heavy memorials to Nazi martyrs -were grand variations of the Wagner operas he admired so much. Indeed, concludes Fest, Hitler was neurotically fearful about being caught offstage-or off guard: he covered his mouth when he laughed. "He had scarcely any but staged relationships," writes Fest. "Everyone was either an extra or an instrument...
...York Evening Enquirer. Smith, an inebriate of alliteration in a hounds-tooth overcoat, has dedicated his last years to resurrecting the national memory of the Patriot League. According to Smith, it was a third major league that has been made the American equivalent of a Soviet unperson through a conspiracy of silence. How this came about is Smith's story, so shaggy, discursive and bizarre that it defies synopsis. Suffice it to say that the Patriot League was discovered to be in the clutches of Communism. Some of its leading figures turn out to be Russian agents. The discovery...