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Article: Seven Thousand Days in Siberia.
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- July 25, 1988
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Brutalized by an `Aberration'
Seven Thousand Days in Siberia
When Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski's Conspiracy of Silence appeared in post-Cominform Yugoslavia, few Westerners of conscience took note of it. In the early 1950s Weissberg-Cybulski was considered a renegade by the international Left, as was the whole Yugoslav Communist Party, and his personal account of the Soviet gulag was dismissed as anti-Communist propaganda. Infinitely more influential were the pleas of such luminaries as Pablo Picasso, Jean Paul Sartre, the Dean of Canterbury, Bertrand Russell, Lillian Hellman, and Eleanor Roosevelt for understanding and friendship with America's great ...