CSPAN2 After Words September 1, 2014
Was getting notices from sweden, from their embassies and friends that pasternek was shortlisted for the prize and he could cause a scandal if he won and the book was banned in the soviet union so a memo was written proposing they publish 10,000 copies and circulate them to no one. So, they would announce, weve published dr. Zhivago but we wouldnt distribute it to anyone. That idea was rejected and instead they came up with a plan to vilify pasternak and force him to renounce the prize, which they did. He was the first recipient of a nobel prize to be forced to renounce it since hitler did the...
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