MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti commentator Dmitry...
states - will eventually coalesce into a new form of society, blending the personal freedom and profit motive of Western democracies with the communist system"s government control of the economy.Moreover, Western attitude to anti-Stalinist literature has recently deteriorated. The dramatic reduction of allocations to Slavic studies in the West, from Vancouver to Tokyo, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union showed that the West needed poets Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetayeva only for political reasons. This is evidence that a free Russian literature has no independent value for an overwhelming majority of Western decision-makers.
And now these people, who clamped down on Solzhenitsyn"s late-period work and described John Paul II as a supporter of Fidel Castro after the Pope"s visit to Cuba, want to teach us how to combat Stalinism. This is silly and dishonorable.
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