History, it’s said, is written by the winners; but perhaps it’s truer to say it belongs to the least reticent. Dean Rusk, on becoming Secretary of State, vowed never to write his memoirs.
On West Germany’s ”Day of National Unity” this summer, a dapper, white-haired, German-born American stood in the Bundestag, facing the President, Prime Minister and other high officials of the West German Government, and spoke about German history.
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“I don’t recognize myself as a satirist,” said Vladimir Voinovich. ”No, I’m just trying to depict reality.”
It is likely the question was first asked as soon as it could be – that the hope of abolition followed shortly after the task of creation.
Wolfgang Leonhard would seem well qualified to deliver what he promises here — a ”new policy toward [the] USSR.”