From, Ismail Kadare's Paris Review Interview.

I could not understand how Sartre could defend the Soviet Union. During the Cultural Revolution in China he was told that thousands of writers, artists, and intellectuals were persecuted, tortured, killed. And he became a Maoist!  

I have great respect for Camus—he was exemplary...

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1105/the-art-of-fiction-no-153-ismail-kadare