SOVIET PLAY FAILS TO SLANDER TROTSKY
The July 12 Pravda charged a new play by Alexander Stein, "Between Cloudbursts,™ with "major ideological shortcomings." The play, about the Krongtadt mutiny in 1921, brought in Trotsky but handled him in an “inacctrate if not to say ambiguous" way, failing -— to condemn him as a "sworn enemy of Lenin," The play was published. in a theatrical magazine but not yet produced on the stage.
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