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During Cold War, CIA Used ‘Doctor Zhivago’ as a Tool to Undermine Soviet Union
- ggm 3y agohttps://archive.is/z8W0U https://archive.is/z8W0U
- ggm 3y agoArguably this was treating Pasternak as a disposable asset. "oh look, here's this amazing Russian whose writing we can weaponize against his own state, irrespective of the flashback onto him as a person" He was of course willing to incur the cost. He wanted the work published. Wiki states that Solzhenitsyn criticized him inside the Russian authors community, Ironic considering future outcomes for him.