Political Leaders and "Iron Cages"

... alternative but to smash it. He knew I was recording the conversation. I pointed to the portrait of Communist Party leader, Todor Zhivkov on the wall, and asked what he thought about these views. Panov said Zhivkov fully agreed with him. I asked if he ... ... in positions of responsibility--in iron cages, where they became instruments of Stalin's brutal regime. Similarly, Gustav Husak, former Czechoslovak President and General Secretary of the Communist Party, was unaware of the iron cage he was ...