[lbo-talk] Stalin's Favorite Cartoonist Still Drawing at 104

mike larkin mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 20 07:12:15 PDT 2004


"Adolf Hitler wanted him executed as soon as German forces took Moscow.

His mocking cartoons of the Soviet Union's ideological foes in the West, ordered by dictator Josef Stalin himself, prompted angry diplomatic protests. At 104, Boris Yefimov's eyesight is failing and he is very hard of hearing. But Stalin's favorite lampoonist still has the steadiness of hand to sketch every day and a bubbly sense of humor that helps him confront the ghosts of his past...."

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=ourWorldNews&storyID=6555995

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