From Moscow, TIME Correspondent John Hersey cabled this account of Soviet writing and publishing in 1944:
The Russian alphabet is still away at war. Even on the eve of victory not a word is written in this country which is not a weapon. Every sentence written in Russia must help beat Hitler or help build a Communist Russia that will make another such war impossible.
Maxim Gorki had a singing phrase to describe the function of the writer"the engineer of the human soul." During the Russian war this has certainly been true. Never before have...
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