Word: komsomolskaya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Capitalizing on Reed's popularity, the Soviets also started a drumbeat of staged flackery on the arrested singer's behalf. The newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda reported that telegrams "expressing wrath and indignation at the arbitrary rule of U.S. authorities" were pouring in. A quartet of Soviet classical composers fired off a message to the White House prodding Carter to "urgently intervene to put an end to arbitrary action and ensure the release of Dean Reed." Reed helped the cause by refusing to post $300 bail, going on a hunger strike with some of his fellow prisoners and announcing...
...possible link between the pattern of crimes and the rising standard of living in the Soviet Union has not been overlooked. Writing in Komsomolskaya Pravda (Young Communist), Political Scientist Vladimir Kudryavtsev noted that "one occasionally hears that once a society has achieved affluence, crimes for gain disappear. However, as Aristotle observed, greed can also be engendered by prosperity. When examining the motives of crime for gain, we cannot automatically attribute them exclusively to relics of the past. Today, a number of 'accretions of the present,' so to speak, are to be observed...
...immediate cause was an ignominious defeat at the hands of Spain in the European basketball championships four weeks ago, an event that had been won by the Soviet Union for 18 years straight. But, said the Communist youth newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda, the real roots of the problem lay in the fact that the players had lost their proletarian humility. Since their stunning gold-medal win in Munich, it wrote, the players had turned into overconfident performers whose once brilliant strategies had become "unimaginative and stereotyped." Soviet Basketball Federation officials, the paper charged, "created a climate of total permissiveness...
...paper applauded the fact that some of the players risk court action for trying to smuggle in Western luxuries from their foreign travels, a privilege that Soviet athletes had long come to take for granted. "The national team returned home burdened not with a heap of victories," complained Komsomolskaya Pravda, "but with a heap of unprecedented customs violations...
...chicken stands may or may not be cheered to learn that two wandering Russians have found these same roadside landscapes to be a paradise of-well, neon-lit motels and fried-chicken stands. The two wanderers-Boris Strelnikov, Washington correspondent of Pravda, and Vasily Peskov, a visiting journalist from Komsomolskaya Pravda-spent six weeks driving 10,000 miles from coast to coast and discovered all manner of things to be praised and emulated...