In 1934, Wells arrived in Moscow to meet a group of Soviet writers. While there Stalin granted him an interview.
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A Brief History of Soviet Rock and Roll
H G Wells: “It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin”
Soviet Docs Shed Light on the Red Army’s Booze-Fueled Nuclear Vacation in Cuba
Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’
Wow… via @ssummers “how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War” A choice bit: “The Congress for Cultural Freedom also gave the CIA the ideal front to promote its covert interest in Abstract Expressionism.”