> Tense negotiations over access and rights in a dodgy ethical atmosphere.
> By JOSEPH TARTAKOVSKY
> <http://online.wsj.com/search/search_center.html?KEYWORDS=JOSEPH+TARTAKOV
> SKY&ARTICLESEARCHQUERY_PARSER=bylineAND>
>
> But Mr. Brent never answers his question about Stalinism's rebirth. He
> suggests only that Russia is "poised" in a "twilight" between
> "authoritarianism and freedom." It goes too far to speak of Stalinist
> revival, but one thing is certain: The question of Russia is really the
> question of /how/ authoritarian it will become.
[Cackle]. Why, you can just feel the grey, dour, totalitarian menace oozing from this nightmarish legacy of Soviet Communism, its claws threatening to shred the helpless West:
http://www.greatrussiangifts.com/catalog/IMG_0355.jpg
-- DRR
