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Mel Lasky played a central part in the Cold War against Communism, and relished every moment of it.(The Week)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
* Mel Lasky played a central part in the Cold War against Communism, and relished every moment of it. His intellectual horsepower was as high as anyone's, and he had go-getting energy to match. A New Yorker born and bred, he had begun as a young Trotskyite in the magnetic field of the Partisan Review crowd in its prewar heyday. The experience freed him from all illusions. Serving in postwar Germany, he immediately grasped that the Communists had control of central Europe, and through force and fraud might take western Europe too. Resistance was a cultural issue as much as anything. Mel was in his element, inspiring the Congress for Cultural Freedom to hold conferences ...
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