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Minneapolis, MN 55414 WHERE • TO FIND US Khrushchev Dear editor, The article by Joseph Hansen on the Moscow Trials in the September issue of Socialist Action was very appropriate.
include the Khrushchev revela -tions in 1956. It was then admitted that the Moscow Trials were frame-ups. Many of the victims of these "trials" were exonerated.
Unfortunately to this day Leon Trotsky, one of the leaders of the Russian Revolution, has not been exonerated. To this day Trotsky does not even exist in the Soviet Union.
The hope for a better future in the Soviet Union still exists. The confirmation of this was best expressed by the Solidarity movement in Poland and will be expressed by the Solidarity Boston Socialist Action P.O. Box 1046 GMF Boston, MA 02205 (617) 389-4075 Chicago Socialist Action Box 80B, 2520 N. Lincoln Chicago, IL 60614 Cincinnati Socialist P.O. Box 27053 Cincinnati, OH 45227 (513) 242-9043 Cleveland Socialist P.O. Box 6151 Cleveland, OH 44101 (216) 429-2167 movements to come in all of the bureaucratized workers' states, including the Soviet Union.
Roland Sheppard Mill Valley, Calif.
Gets around Dear editor, I thought that Socialist Action readers might be interested in the following incident. Like many school teachers, I take university classes during the summer. This summer I took a history class in which we read George Orwell's wonderful "Homage to Cata -lonia.
I drew the professor's attention to the interview with Harry Milton, the American Trotskyist who fought in the Spanish Civil War, in the July Socialist Action.
The professor was so taken with the interview that he read it Detroit Socialist Action P.O. Box 19613 Detroit, MI 48219 Grand Rapids Socialist Actio P.O. Box 3505 Grand Rapids, MI 49501 Los Angeles Socialist Action P.O. Box 60605 Terminal Annex Los Angeles, CA 90060 (213) 250-4608 Minneapolis Socialist Action P.O. Box 14087 Dinkeytown Station
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