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Following from the warning to students not to touch the Wikileaks material at Columbia University, I wonder if any Columbia University professor has recommended to his or her students Merle Fainsod's Smolensk Under Soviet Rule. A sort of Wikileaks of the Cold War period, it was a translated selection from 200 000 pages of Soviet state documents that had first been captured by the Germans as they advanced into Soviet territory in 1941, then subsequently come into US hands after the war. These were reproduced with not the slightest by-your-leave from those from whom they were taken in the first place. And what about Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin's The Mitrokhin Archive, a recent two-volume set of translated selections from KGB files acquired in dubious circumstances by defector Oleg Gordievsky? Like the Smolensk documents, these too were reproduced without permission. Surely no respectable prof would want students to peruse these collections of stolen documents? Paul F ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
