Originally Posted by Billybob

“PLAYBOY: Did you consider becoming a party member prior to the Nazi-Soviet Pact?”

Did you inadvertently post the wrong information?

So according to your posted info, he wasn’t actually asked if he was a communist was he? He was only asked if he considered becoming a (Communist) party member prior to a particular event, correct?

He did say he was not a joiner, philosophically he rejected rigidity of dogma/ideology, that he “parted company with the Communists in the thirties and that’s where I stay parted from them today”.