Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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still pulling the wool over the eyes of an aimed-at 400 million signers of a Potition in the name of "peace" (with the largest standing army in the world's history) and mouthing "democracy" (while holding down more than 15,000,000 slave laborers in his own country alone). And your readers won't learn (millions of 'em don't know) he has more than 15,000,000 slave laborers unless you tell them. Not screaming at the top of your voice, but tell them. And no harm in giving the figure "15,000,000" more than once, if it proves convenient. Repetition is no sin..In fact repetition can be dandy, Witness the world-wide best seller (second only to the Bible, (a mighty repetitive book itself) Anderson's fairy tales. Plenty of repetition in them. If the story is good, the theme gripping, the reader laps up the repetition; if the Wicked Uncle is wicked, it's more than OK to keep on saying (or, in your case, showing) it. And you've certainly got a story, and the Uncle is wicked, Let's show it, by any and every truthful means that doesn't detract from readability.Re Repetition. I'm sure there is a lot in what I says. That when you are writing for mass readership, you ought to use a good deal of repetitions "I am going to tell you the story of how.......So here is the story.....So that was the story." After all, that is the time-tested fairy story technique, and they are the world's best sellers.So why should we shy away from (a) repetition, or (b) calling the spade a spade, dotting the i's and crossing the t's. If you don't/cross your t's pretty vigorously & regularly, a lot of woolly-minded readers are going to have a breathing space in which to say: Still, he had his dear old mother up to stay with him in the Kremlin, so there must be some good in the man; and Byrnes (a Catholic) writes that he is undeniably a 'likable' fellow." Of course, you will anticipate & counteract that with photos of Big Brother accepting bouquets from schoolgirls, juxtaposed with photos showing Big Brother in a...
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much less happy light.The Unclor wore Picked, and Orima said so, Stalin is history's greatest slave-master. Say so. It's not an adjective. It's a fact. Throw the book at Idn. Dallin, Kravchenko, Pirogov. Anything and/or everything that it takes to ram home the fact. If you can do it without Kravchenko or any other "avowed anti-Stalinist" oo much the better, I entirely agree. But let's do it.Stalin keeps the 15,000,000 hidden, so we've got few photos. So if you have to use a photo of a few slave laborers and caption that "there are millions like them," OK. Or use a "there is all this smoke, and it's because there is all this fire" argument; OK. i.e., if you have to use the cumulative technique of quoting a few sentences from Tchernavin and Dallin and Kravchenko and any others, let's do it. The fact of the slave-camps has got to be in there. If it isn't made credible you haven't told the story.For example, re-read "Seeds of Treason". Chambers says that what made the scales fall from his eyes was "I SPEAK FOR THE SILENT" by Tchernavin. (I've never read it, and had forgotten it; you'll do no harm if you mention it some-where. Of course Tchernavin is an anti-stalinist). If that was good enuf for Chambers, it should be good for other CP readers, even, too.What I'm getting at is: I DON'T **KILLHOME CRAMP YOUR STYLE BY ARBITRA-RILY RULING OUT THE USE OF "ANTI-STALINIST" WITNESSES**. Let the motto be: ANY truthful means that tell's Stalin's story is OK. He made the story, we didn't. It's his fault if you have to say: Pirogov was only one airman who escaped, and a more lieutenant, but there are thousands like him.PIROGOV. Just a random suggestion, but I see no reason of principle why you shouldn't have, say: Photo of Stalin, sounding off about the worker's paradise, juxtaposed with Photo of Pirogov (a nice eloquent-looking type, smiling), and a quote from Pirogov (he's definitely eloquent, as you say) to the effect that he didn't like to leave his native land, but couldn't stick.
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it living "as a clave awong alaves". Cf. Ada Siegal, to the effect (in Preface) that there are thousands like him ("The Choico") and be is unusual arily is that ho had few close living relatives, and a plane, and ontoririo.If it onund be done without the Pirogova & Eravchenkos, fins. But I'a oure you'll find khan you chain yourself to your desk and start owating blood over it that you just want to justice to (a) SLV-ABO and (b) LVD's EVE DY-DR ith just a photo of Borin, oven if he looked like a two-headed baby in a bottle. I just don't see how it can tegin to do tim to the adject. It wasn't any photo (though his first sight of Rytov in the flesh shook hia badly) that tok the scales from Chambers eyes, but the Tcharnavin story.Also he was shaken by (a minor news iten in the lion Wheses) the proof that the Araalin ware Hara, bant a systematic, potty denigration of Trotaky. Anything -preferably out of their om souths, es you say that builds the THEY ALS WARS them is good.There is so much to choose from, and it seems to mo that repetition is so good and, probably, so necessary, that I should say, an you do, thật a $1 book couldn't do the job. "white Collar Zoo is 60 pages in all, of which 74 pages have photos. 74 photos won't be auf, by a ling shot. The story is co absorbing, properly tail, that 15) or more potos wouldn't to a hat too much.Ask & what about the coananion of "The Cardinal", where Simon & Schuster got out more than 400 pages of close print for only $1, with per cover, Perhaps no could get by for $2.50, if they felt assured of a large sale, And why shouldn't there be a large pale. You've got the real firt on Stalin, and the prestige of "Lonin". Give then Stalin' in pictures, with the minirava vordage, but em wordage. It will make Deutscher (and Tof, Carr) look like moral lepers.The quote from Senin, any codge, rwe, ote", ahaald dufinitely be in thore, and 1 should think offland vaid to an excellent ons as a fratispiece. Fight out of his cam nouth.
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Just another offhand suggestion: buy "Why I Escaped" and ask l. to re-read it, and see if she doesn't think there are some good brief anecdotal quotes in it. I.e., you could have a photo of a couple of ordinary USSR air-men, sitting at mess-table, or what have you, and a few sentences of conver-sation from Pirogov, -where the *[ILLEGIBLE]* man tells him he'd better inform on his pals, or else, -with the subscript: *-Peter Pirogov, Why I Escaped?*, page soiso. It wouldn't do any harm to advertise Pirogovs & Kravchenkos & Ichernavins anyway, all in the same good cause.Item. On the left-hand page a photo of Alger Hiss montaged (or alongside) one of Mrs. Hede Massing (cf. her book) (she's quite photogenic I think) with caption quoting her on how Hiss & she agreed, after squabbling good-naturedly about interfering with each other's apparatus, "We're both working for the same boss". Then on the right-hand page, a photo of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Hiss, with quote from "Seeds of Treason" on how, at Yalta, at one point FDR, JV3 and Hiss (and one interpreter) were closeted together in the same room, (Roosevelt allegedly emerging saying, "I don't know how they persuaded me to give in, but I did"). There is probably a Yalta photo showing Hiss standing behind some of the others. Just an idea, but when you stop to think what may have been passing thru (a) Hiss's and (b) Stalin's mind at that little tete-a-tete, it might make a dramatic set of photos. But perhaps wouldn't really buttress any of the main theses."MURDER OF THREE DECADES". I'm getting it today. There may be some good caption material in it.ILLUSTRIOUS DEFECTORS. No one of them, perhaps, is important enough to deserve a photo. But how about devoting two or three pages to photos of the 2 or 3 dozen most illustrious figures who have been admirers of the Soviet system & then become disillusioned? Taken all together, they ought to make a pretty impressive gallery: Gide, Koestler, Mann(??), Silone, etc. etc. etc.,
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and you could have a quarter-page of caption giving a one-sentence quote from each of them (…"a soviet-ridden slave-camp""...more totalitarian than any Hitler"…etc), or a single caption to the effect admirers of "The light that Failed”. After all, when one side “defects” it may not be much, but when they all do, sooner or later, it makes a pretty telling point, and a point which will have a multi-national and racial appeal (Silone, Gide, Richard Wright, etc). Throw the book at the bastards. Don’t miss any tricks. If you have a good brick right at hand, why not throw it. (“Any stigma is good enough to beat a dogma”, as someone erroneously said)."LENIN": a wonderful book, and perfect for selling by the thousands to the Kernovitches & Bullitts & Bedell Smiths. But remember the photo-book editions should total in the millions, for the ordinary reader everywhere. That’s why, if I may harp on it, I think it should lean towards the tone & style of Grim’s fairy tales, where you don’t read very far before you know the Uncle is wicked, or strongly suspect it. Therefore the photo of Lenin with the quote “use any dodge, ruse or deception” would be an excellent frontis-piece. Offhand I should say YOU CAN NEVER AFFORD TO TRUST, BELIEVE THIS MAN" is the main theme, with "The more people let this man dupe them, the more this man seems *WAR* perhaps a close second. It’s their propaganda you’re combatting, and if you can show the reader *HE’S NEARLY ALWAYS LYING*, and for his sake not yours” you’ve just about done it.Re *The STORY of Joseph Stalin*. Oot to tell it. There’s got to be a story, a more or less chronological narrative. But I don’t see, do you, how you can begin to tell the whole story; there’s too much of it; you could put the war against Finland in, or you could leave it out; there are too many areas and episodes of that order to put them all in. At any rate *not with photos*; i.e., if you decided to mention Finland at all, it might have to be just with literal-ly 2 or 3 words sandwiched in somewhere in a caption, where (and if) they would
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7haighten the effect. E.g., you might show photos of the taking over ("wel-coming back") of Latvia and/or Est. & Lit., and then add that "...since 1945 the USSR has been expanding at the rate of 65 sq. miles (or whatever it is) per day." (Since 1939, I think it is 65 sq. a per day. Can dig it up, — and let me know any other research you might want to have done). Then juxtapose it with Stalin's statement (1942) about 'not wanting an inch of anyone else's territory'. And throw in 'This is my last territorial demand' of Hitler, if it wouldn't clutter things up!.Item. Alongside the frontispiece quote from Lenin, re "any deception", underneath it you could put Hitler's famous quote about the "big lie". Just because the idea of making the whole book a Hitler-Stalin parallel has been shelved, is no reason why you shouldn't draw the parallel wherever you see fit, if it heightens the effect.More re: not telling the whole story, namely:The Problem of the BIG FAMINE. Your telling the story of the Wicked Uncle, and heaven knows this is an important "episode" in it. Hard to see how it could be omitted entirely. And yet to deal with it is a problem. It is just the sort of problem that has been leading me to think you've got to lean on Text to do part of the job. I.e., the book is a PHOTO-book, and the pictures are the piece de resistance. But the beauty of really effective photos is that they heighten the effect, and carry you through patches where, unavoidably, no really arresting photo is available, —in which patches, I'd say, you're going to have to be content with an ordinary photo and lean at that point on your caption. Which doesn't worry me too much, because, after all, anti-Stalinist literature (and your own malicious mind) are fat not lacking in pithy & sizzling texts, such as alone will make the given page readable and memorable, (e.g., to pick at random a mediocre example: 'If the U.S.S.R. is a democracy, then Leavenworth Prison is a democracy'); nothing to write home about.
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but, with brevity, it paints a picture, after a fashion.) After all, words alone can paint *pictures*, nd evoke emotions, and as your taste aim is to evole an emotional fesponse, there's no need to creup your style with a self-imposed restrictior benntag the use of words, I should think the test would be; the reader wants to stop reading it in the middle, the caption, however true, is bady if you've held his interest to a pitch where he really wants to read is painting *pictures* in his own mind as he reads, then it's OK.E.g., if you have the photo of the three purgees Rykov, K., & Z., and then coctime in your caption to the time "there was a bullet in the back of the head for X, and for Y, a for Z too" it will be, *faute de micux*, OK if the reader is already gripped to the point of nioturing to himself all these Com-rades being ground thru the mill of "opposition"-dasotion-arrest-cam-fession°death.E.g. also, I'd strongly recommend, offhard, inclusion of the striking photo of Hindssenty, circles under his eyes, at the trial, and then you oxid add to the effect that he is merely the highest ranking of the.e.g., more than 12,000 Catholis ulergy who have been ingriscied in Crechoslovakia since 1948. (I have the figures).Re *TIS FAMINE*, to got back to it. The best I can suggest is thet you could have either (a) one of the rare, if adeting at ail, photos, of a fanine socce or (b) a photo of a normal Village Scene, Harvest Scene, with the caption: It could have been live this, but Big Brother wanted an ORGANIZED FAMINE, phes the noot devastating quote you can got from the highest ranking nan-ati-Stalinist sources; and/or plus briel 143 banen interest quotes from Pirogov and/or Krav-chanbo, thereby you translate into hunen-interest tarss the cold statisties of several million dying of fardno.*Have r FAMINE*. It's a problem, how to do it justice, and I'd suggest you have to & at least two trings: (a) malo it believable & bolieved, andTOOFT
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(b) heighten the emotional affect. If you succeed in (a), it will automati-cally help uith (b). And I should think it would help toward (a) to put inthe points you were mentioning. Namely, to make a flat, quiet, sober statementto the general effects "At first glauce it passes credibility that the rulersof a great country would deliberately plan the mass-starvation of severalmillions of their fellow-citisons and potential arms-bearers. But this isexactly what they did, and they did it for two reasons (1) to break the poli-tical power of the peasants, and (b) to get grain for valuta for machine tools."The same method would be good (I think almost obligatory) in doingJustice to SLAVE LABOR, I.e., you just quietly state that, whereas it may seemtoo nightmarish that a regime could keep 15,000,000 slave-laborers stuntedlike cattle, it's not the nightmarish product of an Orwell's imagination, it'sa fact, and it is done for the following cooly thoughout reasons...."quote, either in substance or, preferably, verbatim, from I Change Justice, bottomp. 238, where Kravchenko's NEVD school-mate gives the real reasons forsegregating potential trouble-makers and working them to death to get theirproducts for 1/5 the cost in the free market. A verbatim quote is by no meansessential (though i think quotation marks always liven a page) but I thinkthe EXPLANATION, unblushing proffered by you, the author of the photo-book,is an almost essential ingredient. When you explain how the FAMINE and theSLAVE-LABOR do make sense, to the Kremlin mind, you have (a) enhanced thecredibility, (b) gratified your reader, to whom, in many cases, as one or moreof these things (the TRIALS,e.g) may for years have been a source of puzzle-ment, and (c) heightened the horror and the emotional response.Cf. how "1984" builds up to quite a pitch of nightmare, but it is onlyby dint of a good deal of explanation and repetition. (There is a great dealmore artistic exam economy in "Animal Farm", of course, and if you can make
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10uss of it and/or its tecmiące, moro power to your elbos.) F.d., bow "ةara, pa bo of artistelin literary effort (im't it?(is fast & fairy tale, and yet has a good deal of repetition in it.Sorry to go on at such longth. Luckily the postman knocksth now.Hope there is soso value in it. Lot me know anything I can do to help.W.s.S.SECRET
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8 Sept. 1950ROBERT M. HEADLEY is a contract agent; the effective date of his contract with CIA is 1st Dec. 1949, for two years.Fred Richards (CFD) says the agreement with him re royalties, etc., should be signed by Mr. Eccles, as contracting officer.General Counsel's office informed of the above today, on their inquiry.W35.
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LETTER TO BORIS SHUB Sept. 11, 1950Dick hopes to see you in person next weekend. Meanwhile entirely OK to go ahead. The copyright should be all in your name.Layout assistant should be offered only a fixed fee, half down, half on publication. Also credit line as collaborator if you think be deserves it. Consult Ken as to what would be a reasonable fee to offer him.I suggests as possible publishers in approximate order of preference Doubleday; Picture Press (270 Park Ave., J. J. Thorndike, Jr., former a.e. of "Life" and Oliver Jensen, on leave of absence from "Life"); Simon & Schuster.Best to Libby.Letter to Boris Shub, 510 W. 110th.non-watermark paper.
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223..Painting of Stalin & Red Army Goneral Stoff, in Red Army Ball, Pyongyang, Korea (1)226.. East German People's Police march in Bod-sponsorod torchlight parade colobrating Stalin's 70th b'day, 1949.224.. East Corsan People's Police in Lustgarten Sq. during CP youth demonstration, 23/5/50225.. People's Polico, Lustgarten Sq., May Day 1950214, Bast German Police (left) & W.G. Police as buffer on Berlin border 1950.5...Itudents vote for Moscon People's Court, Feb. '49) Soviet soures,55... Voting for licecos People's Court, Pob. '49) Soviet source,216. Russians (Loft) take over guard duties from U3, 1949, at Spandan Prioon, whore many former top Nazis are carving sentences.227.. "Frankfurter Alles" in Saat Sector renamed "Stalin Allee", 70th biday.53... Army personnal get ballot for election of Losson People's Court, Feb. '49) Soviet source.229.. Front page of anti-C underground paper, 1949.228. Part of revty pamphlet frea anti-c 'ground press "sowoshore in Basada". The "fork of freedom" is u'ground symbol. 19.141..general vion of Loscow,22... Stalin cocepts flowers from Russian kids, 70th b'day.21...scow unty, students being examined in rath.104-5-6. Stalin, 1943.98... Head of statue of Stalin placed on enapped of light pole by German soldiers, 1941.97... Staling no date.2.3..0m data1...Opening of II Clympded, Lustgarten, 1936.6... Mart Party Day, Berlin, 1998,8... Labor Day demonstration, Terpalhef Field, 1934.7...Marching for Ritlar, Adolf Hitler Plats, Dorlin, Party Day 138.
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9...Opening of 1941-2 War Winter Relief Drive, Sportspalest, Berlin.10...Hitler reviewing German Youth, 1939.5....Nazi Party Rally, Berlin, 1936; Hitler.47...Moscow, Fourth Kantemirovka Tank Division of Guards mechanized unit. 1949.37...Red Army commanders stand review by Stalin; Moscow, 1945.35...Troops in Palace Square, Leningrad, May Day 1948.36...Red Army in Red Square with Nazi & Wehrmacht flags, 1945.41...Soviet air force cadets, May 1949, Moscow.43...T-34 medium tanks (foreground) and SU-100 self-propelled 100 mm guns moving up Gorky Street toward Red Square, 1949.44...Infantry at May Day parade, Moscow, 1949.45...Red Army parading, Moscow, 1945.40...Zhukov gallops into Red Square, 194538...All Union Physical Culture parade in Dynamo Stadium, 1947.39...Students of Zhukovsky Military Aviation Academy passing thru Red Square during parade of Moscow Military Garrison, 1949.30...Peter Kapitsa in Institute of Physical Problems, Moscow; he is director, at left; 1945.29...Deputies to the Supreme Soviet, 3 Heroes of the S.U., left to r. Colonel of the Guards A. Polaryshkin, Marshal G. Zhukov; Major of Guards I. Koenstub; in the Kremlin Palace. Acme Newspictures 80509627...Workers celebrating 32nd anniv. of Rev., 1949. "May it live and flourish--a united, independent, democratic peace-loving Germany"; Moscow.24...FDJ members march to Russian War Memorial; Treptow, Berlin, '49.23...Col. Serge Tulpanov, chief of Propaganda Dept of Sov Mil Admin in Berlin, addresses second annual Parteitag of the SED, calls "fascist" US Europe's foe. Acme Newsfictures NYC, #BER(len) 848674, 9-24-47111...Moscow; anti-religious campaign; century-old bells crashed down from tower, to be melted for farm machinery.107...Bogoyavlens Cathedral, Moscow.128...Ribbentrop signing German-Russian pact, 1939.177...no data130...Stal, Mol, Rib signing pact, Aug '39.136...Mol & Rib, Aug. '39; Moscow.
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17...Grave of S's wife Nadeyashis Alliluyeva, Moscow '37.149...Malevich; *car Forpicture*, NYC, 8/1/46; SOV300930165..Yeshov, '38147..Sergey Nikiforovich Kruglov, '47168..Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis, born 1889, Min of State Control; '4779...Library, Moscow Univ., 1922.81...Woman conductor, Moscow streetcar; before 1935.84...Workers on Moscow-Rostov railway.78...Women cleaning loco of Northern Line after overhaul at Moscow Depot; Oct. '3776...Grocery store with home delivery service in Bauman district, Moscow bef. '3771...Chaplin, "City Lights" Rot-opic theater, Moscow.72...unloading sausages from truck for market.74...Woman selling food in city market; 193568...Collective farm girls with primitive implements; Moscow oblast, July '46.83...Soccer team, Moscow, Feb. '49.14...Lenin Institute, Moscow.58...Red Army men inspect English-language books in Moscow shop, 1942.85...Soldiers visit a farmer, Feb. '47. Moscow65...Woman readying bricks for bricklayers, Moscow, '47.77...Moscow (State) Univ., 1944.69...American bean seed being distributed to collective farmers of Yotra District, Moscow oblast, 1945.66...Woman carry girder to job sensed mostly by women; Moscow '47.86...no data96...Boy drummers, Red Sq., '46; appears in Bedell Smith's book.89...Girls saluting Big Brother's bust in young pioneers "House of Children", in Eastern Sector, Berlin, 1950.88...Lenin Hills, looking S.W. across Moscow River, 1947.92..."Children's Town" at Park of Culture and Rest, Moscow; before 1939.94...All Union Physical Culture Parade at Dynamo Stadium, 194795...Members of 11th Congress of Lenin Young Communist League greet members of Congress, Moscow, 1949.120..Stalin smiles as Churchill takes out cigar; Yalta, Feb. '45.
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7.Sept. 1950CIA GRAPHICS! NULIBERS FOR ABOUT 82 PHONS, OF WHICH STERILIZED DUPLICATESARE TO BE SENT TO SHUB SEPT. 8223..CIA 36685 Confidential226... 36692 Conf.224..CIA 36751 Restr.225..CIA 36736 Restr.214..CIA 36899 Conf..54...CIA 30018 Secret. Soviet source.55...CIA 30002 Secret. Soviet, source.216..CIA 36897 Conf.227..CLA 36893 Conf.53...CIA 30023 Secret, Soviet source.229..CIA 28023 Restricted.228. CIA 2802, Restricted.4. 2030 APT. 34728921...CIA 28508 Conf.22...CIA 32340 Restricted.106..05S-P-11061 Press Assoc. Photo105..0SS-P-11060 Press Assoc. Photo104..OSS-P-1106297...CIA Not for release98...CIA 28453 Conf.2....no description; nothing on the back3....same as 21....26586 82 (nothing else)6....26586 828....26586 827....ditto4....25090 09....26586 8210...26586 82.5....25090 047...CIA 28020 Restr.37...CLA 27124 Conf.35...CI1 27118 Conf.36...CLA 27123 Conf.41...CIA 30050 Secret43...CIA 28021 Restr.44...CIA 28022 Conf.45...CIA 27119 Conf.40... CIA 25472 Conf.38...CIA 28792 Coff.39...CIA 34475 Restr.29... Acme newspictures, 8th Avenue, NYC30...CIA 26005 Conf.23... Acme Newspictures, BER(lin) 848674, NY Burean27...CIA 28018 Restr.24...26586 82107..27060 82111..27060 82128..CIA 28039 Restr.127..CIA 28454130..CLA 26946 Rostr.136..CIA 26947 Restr.