Death of Bukharin
On “Saturday Night Live” the question was once asked, “What if Superman had landed in Germany instead of America?” Paul Berman’s what-if question about Nikolai I. Bukharin (Opinion, March 10) seems almost as ridiculous.
Stalin swept Bukharin aside too easily for the opposite to be taken seriously. What if the Russian Revolution had failed, or what if Lenin had lived to confront Stalin, are logical possibilities. At least in these cases the current of history could have gone in either direction.
ARNOLD SCHRAGER
Los Angeles
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