[niteowl77]

Agreed. And Hellman suffering doesn't strike me as being equivalent to Solzhenitsyn suffering.

[WOSG]

Kazan suffered FAR MORE FROM THE LEFT WING BLACKLIST than the communists he named, who were inconvenienced for a while in the 1950s but went to do whatever their talents took them. Kazan after the 1950s was not given any decent budget movies, he was sidelined, despite being one of the best directors America ever had.

Many of those Kazan named were 'finished' career-wise because their talent was not that great.

And Lillian Hellman was a commie b***h who made the leftist Sarandon seem sane, saintly and moderate! She was that bad!

[driftless]

Mary McCarthy, a fellow-traveler in the mostly Marxist, New York-centered, American literary scene, concluded that just about everything Lillian Hellman said or wrote was a lie. The simple fact is that most of the people who comprise the American literary set then and now have either themselves been commies or have been extremely sympathetic to communism and the former Soviet Union. Good riddance to any of their ilk and a plague upon their careers.