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    Muzzled in Moscow

    Jun 24, 2021 4 minutes
    Roland Elliott Brown

    TWO QUOTATIONS from prominent Russians in Assignment Moscow call for juxtaposition. The first comes from Maxim Gorky, world-famous writer and friend to Lenin and the Bolsheviks, who in 1921 appealed “to all honest European and American people” for aid to relieve a catastrophic famine brought about by grain requisitioning and the Russian civil war. “Tragedy,” Gorky began his open letter, “has come to the country of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Mendeleev, Pavlov, Mussorgsky, Glinka and other world-prized men.”

    The other comes from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, responding to bureau chief Neil Buckley’s self-presentation as a fair-minded, enthusiastic Russophile. “Yes,” he replied, “but I think the

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