"Salinger's 'Catcher In The Rye' Resonated Behind Iron Curtain As Well"

[Richard Fiero]

Richard Fiero wrote:
>http://www.rferl.org/content/Salingers_Catcher_In_The_Rye_Resonated_Behind_Iron_Curtain_As_Well/1943025.html
>By Nikola Krastev
>. . .
>The book struck a chord with American teenagers who identified with 
>the novel's themes of alienation, innocence and rebellion.
>
>But when the novel was translated into Russian during the 
>"Khrushchev thaw", its anti-hero's tormented soul-searching also 
>reverberated among admirers throughout the Soviet bloc.

The point of this post was that the article appeared on Radio Free 
Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL):
"Founded as an anti-communist source of information during the Cold 
War, RFE/RL was headquartered at Englischer Garten in Munich, Germany 
from 1949 to 1995."
It's clear that "The Catcher in the Rye" was used as a possibly 
destabilizing present to the Eastern Bloc by the US taxpayers in 1960 
when the Soviet authorities considered the book critical of US culture.
Very funny.