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MAN OF THE DECADE, Page 58In Any Language . . .Intimate whispers, silent vigils, joyful chants all echoed witha single, precious word: freedom
EAST GERMANY: FREIHEIT
"I must weep for joy that it happened so quickly and simply.
And I must weep for wrath that it took so abysmally long."
-- Wolf Biermann, East German poet and protest singer who was
stripped of his citizenship in 1976 while on tour in West Germany.
An idealistic socialist, he returned to his country in December.
POLAND: WOLNOSC
"Polish society, often badly assessed by itself and its
leaders, has proved itself better and much more mature than we
thought it was."
-- Andrzej Wajda, Senator and movie director.
HUNGARY: SZABADSAG
"I am proud that these historical changes have come about
without bloodshed or force. This is the result of the wisdom of the
people. No one called for revenge."
-- Arpad Goncz, author and playwright. He was sentenced to life
imprisonment in 1956 and released under a 1963 amnesty. Unable to
publish, he worked as a pipe fitter.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA: SVOBODA
"In everyone there is some longing for humanity's rightful
dignity, for moral integrity, for free expression of being and a
sense of transcendence over the world of existence."
-- Vaclav Havel, playwright and leader of the democracy
movement
BULGARIA: SVOBODA
"Until now silence has been the only form of honesty, but today
we cannot be silent any longer. We are being drowned in the torrent
of applause from a claque; suffocated in the sewage of lethargy and
sunk in the superidealized cesspool."
-- Edvin Sugarev, poet and literary critic
SOVIET UNION: SVOBODA
"The many countries crushed into some semblance of historical
and ideological unity under communism are at long last beginning
to assert their claims to separate identities. These countries are
claiming their right to be themselves."
-- Andrei Sinyavsky, one of the leading dissidents of the
1960s, immigrated to Paris in 1973 after almost six years in a
labor camp
CHINA: ZEE-YOU
"The pressure against the system is building, and there comes
a point beyond which one cannot turn back. However naive our faith
may seem, we will continue the fight. Even if we are convinced the
battle is lost from the beginning, at least for the time being we
will have to answer the challenge."
-- Wuer Kaixi, a leader of the students' movement, now in
self-imposed exile in the U.S.