[Lonesome in Massachussets]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/quagmire.asp debunked a similar alleged Reuters piece. Did you see the dead-tree (or a least the microfiche copy) of the Life article?

Dos Passos is anti-American enough to have said anything her, it's hard to believe he would have critized his beloved Soviet Union this harshly.

[RonDog]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/quagmire.asp debunked a similar alleged Reuters piece. Did you see the dead-tree (or a least the microfiche copy) of the Life article?

Snopes is NOT the un-biased arbiter of truth that they appear to be, so I also take what THEY say with a large grain of salt...

...but, from www.life.com, at least the COVER PICTURE and the alleged date of publication (January 7, 1946) check out: