Human Rights in the Soviet Union: The Policy of Dissimulation
Journal: The Institutional Repository at DePaul University (DePaul University)
Year: 2015

We sit for a while in the kitchen -The white sweet smell of kerosene.Sharp knife and a loaf of bread. If you like, let the primus burn out, And if not, gather stringTo tie the basket before dawn, Because we leave for the station Where no one must find us out.-Osip Mandelshtain (1 8 91-ca.1938) The author of this poem lived and died during the Stalinist terror, 1 but the fear of totalitarianism that is expressed continues to characterize the experience of many individuals in the Soviet Union toda