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| | TIME.com: The Unconquered -- Dec. 8, 1961 -- Page 1 |
 | | Abram Tertz's On Socialist Realism and Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yesenin-Volpin's The Leaf of Spring, gave Western readers a look at Russian intellectuals' bitter disenchantment. |
 | | the author who hides behind the pseudonym Abram Tertz has been variously reported to be a professor in a Russian university, a prominent Russian novelist, or Poet Yesenin-Volpin himself. |
 | | So, too, do sculptors, musicians, agronomists, engineers, laborers, policemen and lawyers, as well as theaters, machines, newspapers and guns." Soviet literature, says Tertz, has become the false bible of Communism, in which "whores are as modest as virgins and hangmen tender as mothers." |
| www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,895761,00.html (653 words) |
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