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Economic Hurricane Re your cover stories on the economic crisis: For much of the 20th century, the nationalization of financial institutions and industry was seen in the U.S. as a rejection of economic liberalism and tantamount to an embrace of communism [Oct. 20]. It's hard to ignore the parallels between, for example, President Salvador Allende's nationalization of Chile's banks and copper industry in 1970, and the U.S. government's recent purchase of part of insurance giant AIG and its bailout of several financial behemoths. It is interesting that the crisis in the capitalist system has been...
...know today is that Kundera’s name appears on a short police report from 1950 and that Communist counterintelligence, perhaps based on that report, arrested and sentenced a Czech-born anti-Communist spy to many years of hard labor. But government documents were routinely fabricated under Communism and an 81-year-old historian asserts that the real informant (who is no longer alive) confessed to his testimony years ago. Given the evidence at this stage, it appears that the agent was betrayed either by his college friend, her jealous boyfriend or, only possibly, Kundera himself...
...Czech Republic for more than three decades, and some of his best works are still awaiting publication in his native country. But he is still regarded as one of the country's greatest writers and, more importantly, a leading voice of the generation that turned away from Communism to embrace the heady liberalismof the Prague Spring before it was crushed by Soviet tanks. So the recent allegation that, as a student under Communist rule, he informed local police on a young man is being greeted with dismay, and a little disbelief. The author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being...
...Among other things, the flap underscores the difficulty of gleaning the truth from communist- era archives. Police files similar to the one in which this document was found exist in most post-communist countries in eastern Europe. And such celebrated opponents of communism as former Czech President Vaclav Havel and Polish dissident journalist Adam Michnik have argued strenuously against their contents being divulged to the public, for fear that the information will be misinterpreted, used for political gain, or to carry out personal vendettas. Skeptics also point out that the communist-era police frequently forged documents to embarrass state enemies...
...really think George Bush is a communist? When you make everybody suffer for the benefit of a few, that's my vision of communism...