"Only in the Soviet Socialist state," said a learned Moscow professor recently, "is marriage for love possible. Bourgeois marriages are mere business matches wherein love gets dirty and trampled."
In Moscow, back in 1924, lean, leggy Hertta Kuusinen was a nubile 20-year-old much exposed to the twin influences of love and the Soviet state. Her father, Finnish-born Otto Kuusinen (now Vice President of the U.S.S.R.'s Supreme Soviet), was an agile ideologist whose fancy footwork had kept him Secretary of the Comintern during the chairmanships of Zinoviev and Bukharin. Hertta's heart interest was...
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