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Salisbury described Ehrenburg as a "famous Russian iconoclast and critic" and wished he were alive to read the biography, "Tangled Loyalities", of him by Joshua Rubenstein. Salisbury knew what the Red Army did on its march into Germany and that Ehrenburg encouraged crimes against women and children .

Ehrenburg was no "iconoclast". During the Moscow show trials, Radek, Bukharin,Babel and Meyerhold all implicated him in their alleged "Trotskyite" plot to overthrow Stalin. Rather than execute him as he did the others, Stalin saw to it that Ehrenburg got a press pass to their trials. After the trails, Stalin allowed Ehrenberg to travel abroad to continue to spread Soviet propaganda.

The NYT's Salisbury and other pinko reds in this country are still trying to whitewash the crimes of Ilya Ehrenburg by saying he only supported Stalin out of fear for his life.

As Stalinist propagandist and spy for the NKGB, Ehrenburg lived in Paris from 1925 to 1945. This was far from being under Stalin's thumb. In 1942 and 1948 Ehrenburg received the Stalin Prize and in 1952, the Lenin Peace Prize. All the while he rejoiced in Stalin's killings.