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Cruel Dilemma. The Soviet Union is, of course, a dictatorship that denies all its citizens many basic human rights taken for granted in the West. But the Jews are treated worse than most. Despite its slogans about equality. Communism has always been ambivalent on the Semitic question. In the early days, many leading Bolsheviks were Jewish, including Leon Trotsky. Under Stalin...
...Tribune is also restoring capitalization that was swept away years ago by McCormick. For decades, the paper's "down" style decreed orient, soviet, communism. The only medal or memorial allowed upper case was the Purple Heart. Kirkpatrick explains that the return to "up" style was made "as a service to the reader, so he can scan a story rapidly, and important things such as the name of an organization will stand...
That apocalyptic allegory is the plot of Der Dra-Dra, the latest work of one of Communism's most controversial artists. Wolf Biermann, 34, a sad-faced East Berlin balladeer, is the spiritual heir of Bertolt Brecht, who spent his last years in the city. But while Brecht directed most of his barbs at the abuses of capitalism ("Don't rob a bank. Own one"), Biermann aims his satire at the political dictatorships of both left and right. Biermann's approach has hardly endeared him to Communist Party Boss Walter Ulbricht and East Germany...
...since, not even in Five Easy Pieces, which made the only repressed figure an ex-concert pianist. Even Brando's heroic dockworker from On the Waterfront would be a welcome addition to current filmgoer; though the enemy in that film was a crooked union (read in Kazan's anti-communism) and the force of good a priest (read in the moral order of liberal America); at least Terry Mullow was a full human being who had a culture of his own and thought about his life. If Shebib's point is that the working-class has become so mechanized that...
...spur-of-the-moment meetings with Nasser and to Algeria for discussions with President Houari Boumedienne. When a group of Sudanese officials arrived recently in Tripoli, he kept them waiting for two days before he showed up, in shirt sleeves and sandals, to lecture them on the evils of Communism...