Note 1. In a preface to Imperialism Lenin wrote that he would have to use "that cursed Aesopian language" to get past the Russian censors. Studying the continuous alternation between literality and code in communist-influenced writing became a popular science in the hands of Professor Stefan Possony, for example, whose friendly testimony before HUAC was given the title "Language as a Communist Weapon."
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