Soviet Editors Admit Irresponsibility in Publishing Letter
Editors of a Soviet newspaper said Friday that they were irresponsible in publishing a letter supporting dictator Josef Stalin.
Soviet Russia, the organ of the Russian Republic’s Communist Party and government, published its public confession in an editor’s note accompanied by readers’ letters and a historian’s article.
All 10 letters condemned Stalinism, which was supported in a letter the newspaper printed March 13 from a Leningrad teacher.
The teacher defended Stalin, saying his accomplishments are being ignored and his crimes overemphasized. The teacher also criticized Gorbachev’s perestroika program, which aims to restructure Soviet society.
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