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An Open Letter to the United States Government |
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President Clinton, Secretary Albright: I accuse you and in your persons the government of the United States of America of the moral and physical murder of the great Russian artist Alexander Zhdanov, and of the premeditated destruction of his cultural contribution to American life. This murder, at the behest of the Soviet KGB and its representatives in America, has been going on for nearly 10 years!!! The cowardice, dereliction of duty, immorality, deceit, corruption, lawlessness, irresponsibility and impunity of your subordinates within the U.S. government created the problem of "Picturegate." Former American diplomats stand at the root of the problem: Guroff, working for the pro-Soviet side; Vershbow and Beyrly working within America's presidential apparatus; Robinson, working within the State Department; and McKeanzy working in the CIA. Your functionaries, along with the guilty diplomats, have proven themselves stronger than you, Mr. President and Madame Secretary! Defending their personal career,% they undermine the authority of America and its leaders, without giving it a second thought. Year after year they have disinformed you and the U.S. Congress, hiding from you the truth. Just as with the aides of Sens. Helms, Robb, Warner, D'Amao, Domenici, Graham, Gramm, Grams, Hatch, Jeffords Kennedy, Mack, Mikulski, Moynihan, Pell, Sarbanes, Thurmond, and Wellstone, and the aides of numerous Representatives, they place their own ambitions above their Constitutional obligations to their constituency. And thus is created between the government and its citizens a criminal chasm - discontent on the one side created by coercion on the other. The sharpness of an already hard life is increased, with its bondage to dependence on credit, its emasculated sense of service, its furious race for a bankrupt life, and with its uncertain future for the majority of average Americans. This situation engenders stress, encourages depression, increases disease and death. The President and Secretary of State, as key government figures, carry the full weight of responsibility before history for this. Drug addicts, alcoholics, perverts, murders and suicides are created not only by the satiety, spiritual bankruptcy and insecurity of American life, but also by the incapable government of the United States, which has destroyed in the instance of "Picturegate" the principle moral values of human activity. I state this taking full responsibility for my words, on the basis of my personal experience of life in America and my many years of dealing with the representatives and functionaries of the United States government Unfortunately, the U.S. press also has proven itself untenable in matters of principle. It has practically gone dry in its reporting of the measured games played with human rights, on the hook of which have been hung out to dry the dissidents of so many countries. These "Picturegate" criminals, these murderers of an artist and benefactor, hope in vain for governmental immunity and untouchability; they hope in vain for the cloak of silence and oblivion to fall over the artist and his gift to America; they hope in vain to bankrupt Alexander Zhdanov in the sick and distorted judicial system, where only insane sums of money decide everything. I shall spread throughout the entire world my accusation of the U.S. government in the murder of an artist and in the destruction of his gift to America, Mr. President and Madame Secretary, because you have left me no other choice. An artist brings to America his spiritual culture, and you trample him into the dirt and into oblivion, into poverty, into unbelief, into sickness and into an early grave! You are killing a unique representative of true art and destroying the 1,500 works that comprise his unique gift to the American people! The leading art critic in Moscow, the last representative of the ancient and once immensely wealthy Kuskovy Family (from the Kuskovo estate below Moscow, known for the Famous Kuskovsky Museum of Art) immortalized the artistic significance of Alexander Zhdanov in an in-depth article earlier this year: "A Solitary Path in Modern Art." My letter of accusation will immortalize America's shame in the matter of "Picturegate." And your assistants, Mr. President and Madame Secretary of State, will no longer be able to hide the Truth about the artist and about his gift to America, even by throwing this letter in the trash along with all the others. |
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