SocialistGenius
27th February 2008, 21:47
Hello,
I have been in recent phone/e-mail contact with Victor Grossman, the author of his memoir: Crossing the River, in which he fled Mcarthyite America persecution (as a conscript in the Army who was facing court-martial for his communist beliefs). He swam across the Danube river into the Soviet Zone in Austria and eventually setup a new life in the young German Democratic Republic (GDR/DDR).
I have told him about this forum and how many of our comrades here would love to speak with him regarding his life as an American Communist in a Socialist country (albeit a country with excesses, but far less so than the excesses and persecution in western countries).
It'd be great if he does join our forum. In the case that he doesn't (I'm not sure how much of an internet-person he is), I'll be posting/relaying all my interviews with him on my site (TBA).
So, I'd like to ask my fellow comrades here what questions they'd like me to ask him the next time we communicate in e-mail or over the phone.
If you have some, (many of you have read his memoir book so I'm sure those people and others would have quite a few questions about what it was like living in the DDR, or other questions), please post them in this thread.
I'll post his answers promptly.
Regards.
I have been in recent phone/e-mail contact with Victor Grossman, the author of his memoir: Crossing the River, in which he fled Mcarthyite America persecution (as a conscript in the Army who was facing court-martial for his communist beliefs). He swam across the Danube river into the Soviet Zone in Austria and eventually setup a new life in the young German Democratic Republic (GDR/DDR).
I have told him about this forum and how many of our comrades here would love to speak with him regarding his life as an American Communist in a Socialist country (albeit a country with excesses, but far less so than the excesses and persecution in western countries).
It'd be great if he does join our forum. In the case that he doesn't (I'm not sure how much of an internet-person he is), I'll be posting/relaying all my interviews with him on my site (TBA).
So, I'd like to ask my fellow comrades here what questions they'd like me to ask him the next time we communicate in e-mail or over the phone.
If you have some, (many of you have read his memoir book so I'm sure those people and others would have quite a few questions about what it was like living in the DDR, or other questions), please post them in this thread.
I'll post his answers promptly.
Regards.