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- <text id=90TT0020>
- <title>
- Jan. 01, 1990: In Any Language...
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- The New USSR And Eastern Europe
- Jan. 01, 1990 Man Of The Decade:Mikhail Gorbachev
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MAN OF THE DECADE, Page 58
- In Any Language...
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Intimate whispers, silent vigils, joyful chants all echoed with a
- single, precious word: freedom
- </p>
- <p>EAST GERMANY: FREIHEIT
- </p>
- <p> "I must weep for joy that it happened so quickly and
- simply. And I must weep for wrath that it took so abysmally
- long."
- </p>
- <p>-- Wolf Biermann, East German poet and protest singer who
- was stripped of his citizenship in 1976 while on tour in West
- Germany. An idealistic socialist, he returned to his country in
- December.
- </p>
- <p>POLAND: WOLNOSC
- </p>
- <p> "Polish society, often badly assessed by itself and its
- leaders, has proved itself better and much more mature than we
- thought it was."
- </p>
- <p>-- Andrzej Wajda, Senator and movie director.
- </p>
- <p>HUNGARY: SZABADSAG
- </p>
- <p> "I am proud that these historical changes have come about
- without bloodshed or force. This is the result of the wisdom of
- the people. No one called for revenge."
- </p>
- <p>-- Arpad Goncz, author and playwright. He was sentenced to
- life imprisonment in 1956 and released under a 1963 amnesty.
- Unable to publish, he worked as a pipe fitter.
- </p>
- <p>CZECHOSLOVAKIA: SVOBODA
- </p>
- <p> "In everyone there is some longing for humanity's rightful
- dignity, for moral integrity, for free expression of being and
- a sense of transcendence over the world of existence."
- </p>
- <p>-- Vaclav Havel, playwright and leader of the democracy
- movement
- </p>
- <p>BULGARIA: SVOBODA
- </p>
- <p> "Until now silence has been the only form of honesty, but
- today we cannot be silent any longer. We are being drowned in
- the torrent of applause from a claque; suffocated in the sewage
- of lethargy and sunk in the superidealized cesspool."
- </p>
- <p>-- Edvin Sugarev, poet and literary critic
- </p>
- <p>SOVIET UNION: SVOBODA
- </p>
- <p> "The many countries crushed into some semblance of
- historical and ideological unity under communism are at long
- last beginning to assert their claims to separate identities.
- These countries are claiming their right to be themselves."
- </p>
- <p>-- Andrei Sinyavsky, one of the leading dissidents of the
- 1960s, emigrated to Paris in 1973 after almost six years in a
- labor camp
- </p>
- <p>CHINA: ZEE-YOU
- </p>
- <p> "The pressure against the system is building, and there
- comes a point beyond which one cannot turn back. However naive
- our faith may seem, we will continue the fight. Even if we are
- convinced the battle is lost from the beginning, at least for
- the time being we will have to answer the challenge."
- </p>
- <p>-- Wuer Kaixi, a leader of the students' movement, now in
- self-imposed exile in the U.S.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
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