Two open, Russian-built trucks rattled south through Korea's demilitarized zone to "Indian Village," collecting point for the Korean war P.W.s who do not want to go home. Twenty-four voices rose in unison from the trucks, and the refrain of the Communist Internationale echoed down the narrow valley: "Arise, ye prisoners of starvation, arise, ye wretched of the earth." Just as the trucks rolled into the barbed-wire compound, they shouted the final line: "The International Soviet will free the human race." Then they raised clenched fists in the Communist salute.
One was a...
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