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Boris Yeltsin: Lessons for America (Part Two)

May 12, 2007 - 1:34 am - by Oleg Atbashian
Jim C.
2007-05-12 22:56:05

“These journalists wouldn’t recognize fascism if it smacked them over the head with a hammer and sickle, which is the Soviet version of swastika.”

That’s echoed by Gunther Grass in a panel he was on with Tom Wolfe: “For the past hour, I have my eyes fixed on the doors here…You talk about fascism and police repression. In Germany when I was a student, they come through those doors long ago. Here they must be very slow.”