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In nothing is the difference between the Americans and the Soviets so marked as in the attitude, not only toward writers, but of writers toward their system. For in the Soviet Union the writer's job is to encourage, to celebrate, to explain, and in any way to carry forward the Soviet system. Whereas in America, and in England, a good writer is a watch-dog of society. His job is to satirize its silliness, to attack its injustices, to stigmatize its faults.