The Russian Journal by Steinbeck is a timeless reading about the US-Russia relationship, fake news, and the people diplomacy. How much do you know about it?
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Hmm my reading so far does not suggest they are gullible. I love Custine as much as anything on Russia, and these guys did a good job reporting what they saw as they declared. Obviously Custine had more access and venom, & Steinbeck style is why America beat France in the world.
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They don't need to be gullible to literally become mouthpieces of the regime (though still foreign mouthpieces, which is a happy change from the domestic ones). Custine was already a survivor of a France that was beaten by a communist dictatorship, a century before Russia.
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Stalin liked letting writers in, and there there various outcomes. E.g. Gide was not fooled as Rolland, and was relentlessly insulted in the Pravda for seeing through things. There were anti-Semitic caricatures and crude crude hints he was gay. Great writers can see, always.
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