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Tuesday, October 4, 1988/The Battalion/Page 11
World and Nation
Soviet press publishes article
that depicts anti-Semitist Stalin
MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin long claimed
anti-Semitism was a purely capitalist scourge that
couldn’t exist under socialism.
But the state-run press has thrown into doubt
that official tenet and even suggested there may
not have been much difference between Josef
Stalin and Adolf Hitler on the question of anti-
Semitism.
Soviet doctrine for decades has maintained
that the overthrow of capitalism in the 1917 Rus
sian Revolution did away with the economic ex
ploitation that fosters anti-Semitism.
One of the publications in the forefront of the
“glasnost” campaign, the weekly Ogonyok, re
cently published an expose on a grave near
Minsk that contained the remains of thousands
of people shot as “enemies of the people” in the
late 1930s during Stalin’s reign.
Ales Adamovich, who wrote the article, said he
had clashed with another author who tried to jus
tify the actions of Stalin’s secret police.
“They believed,’ my opponent stressed, refer
ring to the guards and the watchmen whose
tower loomed over the head of all 170 million
people (then the Soviet population),” Adamovich
wrote. “Well, those who committed unthinkable
atrocities in occupied Byelorussia, Ukraine, Rus
sia and the Baltic states — could they not also
refer to their ‘symbols of faith?’ They could, and
that’s how they justified themselves at the Nu
remberg trial.”
Another magazine, the monthly literary jour
nal Oktyabr, in its latest edition, printed a pas
sage from Vitaly Grossman’s novel “Life and
Fate” about the rise of “State anti-Semitism.”
Oktyabr has been serializing Grossman’s mas-
terwork, a World War Il-era historical novel long
banned in the Soviet Union, that sketches paral
lels between wartime Russia and Nazi Germany
and the ideological tyrannies of Stalinism and
Nazism.
But reader Viktor Koretsky complained in a
letter that a “very important” segment had been
skipped over in the serialization. The journal’s
editors acknowledged that part of the novel had
been “omitted,” but did not explain why. They
then printed the missing 2.5-page fragment, in
cluding these passages:
“In the course of two millennia, have there
ever been occasions when the forces of freedom
and humanitarianism made use of anti-Semitism
as a tool in their struggles? Possibly, but I do not
know of them,” wrote Grossman, who died in
1964.
In contrast, he said, “In totalitarian countries,
where society as such no longer exists, there can
arise state anti-Semitism.
“The first stage of state anti-Semitism is dis
crimination: the state limits the areas in which
Jews can live,” Grossman wrote. “The second
stage is wholesale destruction. At a time when the
forces of reaction enter a fatal struggle against
the forces of freedom, then anti-Semitism be
comes an ideology of Party and State — as hap
pened with Fascism.”
Oktyabr’s editors noted the segment follows
chapters dealing with Adolf Eichmann, the Ges
tapo official who oversaw the annihilation of mil
lions ol Jews, and said Grossman was describing
the racist policy of state anti-Semitism.
But the passage would appear to embrace anti-
Semitism in official Soviet life as well, and in one
place, it mentions “cosmopolitanism,” a charge
used under Stalin to persecute Jewish authors,
artists and other figures after World War II.
>“No other writer has so convincingly estab
lished the identity of Nazism and Soviet Commu
nism,” Grossman’s English-language translator
Robert Chandler said in a forward to the British
edition of the novel. “The parallels between the
two systems are drawn repeatedly . . .”
Soviet officialdom had little illusion about the
explosiveness of the message contained in “Life
and Fate.” In 1960, Grossman completed the
800-page novel and submitted it to an official lit
erary journal, Znamya. It was returned with a re
jection slip calling the work “anti-Soviet.”
KGB officers were sem to Grossman’s home'
with orders to confiscate not only the manu
script, but even sheets of used carbon paper and
typewriter ribbons. When Grossman appealed to
the ruling Politburo for the return of his manu
script, Kremlin ideologue Mikhail A. Suslov re
portedly told him there would be no question of
“Life and Fate” being published for another 200
years.
Nation’s hospitals face financial illness
«
CHICAGO (AP) — The financial
health of the nation’s hospitals is tak
ing a turn for the worse, which could
lead to more hospital closings and a
dedine in the quality of patient care,
an industry group said Monday.
The main cause of the hospitals’
financial woes is less-than-adequate
payments under government Medi
care and Medicaid programs, the
Healthcare Financial Management
Association said, citing a survey of
1,400 hospitals. There are about
7,000 hospitals in the country.
“The first thing we need is to have
a payment policy for Medicaid and
Medicare services that is rational,”
association President Richard L.
Clarke said. “We feel that it is cur
rently unfair to hospitals.”
“We believe government and em
ployers must . . . make decisions for
payment of health care services
which meet the financial needs of
hospitals that conscientiously man
age their costs,” he said.
Under changes that took effect in
October 1983, Medicare pays a set
amount for a given service or treat
ment. The schedule was set by Con
gress in an effort to curb sharply es
calating healthcare costs and reduce
federal budget deficits.
Clarke said that move has resulted
in more patients being treated at
outpatient clinics and walk-in surgi
cal centers, and a decline in hospital
occupancy rates.
“I think what we’ll find in the fu
ture is that more hospitals will close,
others will eliminate unprofitable
services such as emergency rooms
and others will have no ability to bor
row money to replace aging plant
and equipment,” Clarke said.
The organization for financial
managers of hospitals and other
businesses in the health-care field
has 26,000 members.
A spokesman for the U.S. Health
Care Finance Administration, which
administers the Medicare govern
ment-insurance program, used pri
marily by senior citizens, declined to
comment specifically on the report,
saying he had not seen it.
But spokesman Robert Hardy
said Medicare payment rates for
hospitals are “fair and realistic.”
There were rate increases of 2.9
percent to 3.9 percent on Oct. 1, he
said, noting the boosts varied de
pending on location.
“Basically, Medicare was put into
business not to make sure that every
hospital in the country makes a
profit . . . but to make sure that se
nior citizens get quality health care,”
Hardy said.
He said a major factor in hospi
tals’ financial problems is too many
beds, citing nationwide occupancy
rates averaging only about 60 per
cent.
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