Anecdotal Evidence: `With Nothing But New Words'

Anecdotal Evidence: `With Nothing But New Words'
Excerpt:
Seventy-three years ago this week, Osip Mandelstam was starving, sick and out of his mind in the frozen transit camp at Vtoraya Rechka near Vladivostok, where he had been transported for “counter-revolutionary activity.” He was a Jew, a poet and a citizen of Western Civilization. He was buried in a common grave and his brother was notified of his death three years later. We think he died Dec. 27, 1938.

Even before the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago was published in the West, the poet’s widow Nadezdah Mandelstam, in her 1,100-page memoir (published in English as Hope Against Hope, 1970, and Hope Abandoned, 1974), chronicled Stalin’s industrial-scale erasure of blameless people, among whom was her husband. During those years of putative détente,...

[Note: In other words, Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin were as evil or more so than Hitler and are the 'founders' of a repressive totalitarian ideology that is intriniscally evil. "You shall know them by their fruits."]