[lbo-talk] Picasso is not a communist [foia]

[Michael Pugliese]

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/aragon.htm
> ...'"Poor Aragon," Picasso chuckled as soon as Aragon had left
his studio. "He doesn't know anything about pigeons. And as
for the gentle dove, what a myth that is! There's no crueller
animal... How's that for a symbol of Peace?"' (from Picasso:
Creator & Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington,
1988)

When Stalin died in 1953, Aragon published a portrait of him
in Les Lettres françaises under the headline 'What We Owe to
Stalin". It was drawn by Picasso and arose furor. Aragon
thanked the party leaders for their rebuke and published
excerpts from the outraged letters sent from the different
Communist cells. After the uproar had died down Picasso asked:

  "How can Aragon, a poet, endorse the view that it is the
public which should judge reality?"

In 1968 Aragon publicly condemned the Soviet intervention in
Czechoslovakia - he also attacked Stalinism.
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-- 
Michael Pugliese