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None of this has gone over very well in a community so conservative that its newsstands refused to sell copies of LIFE and Look when they carried features on the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution last fall. Some students confronted Johns at a convocation last spring, charged that he and many of the new teachers were promoting Marxist philosophy and inciting opposition to the Viet Nam war. One undergraduate group began a drive to impeach...
Beneath crystal chandeliers inside Hradcany Castle, on a high hill over looking Prague, the party and government leaders of Czechoslovakia gathered to observe the 50th anniversary of their independence from Austro-Hungarian rule. The moment was solemn - and cautious. "I beg you not to demonstrate," Josef Smrkovský, President of the National Assembly, had pleaded with the students of Prague's Charles University. "Would it be surprising if tanks appeared? If you demonstrate, we might all be sorry." Most of the university heeded the warning, marking the day quietly with a philosophy-department "teach-in" against the Russian occupation...
...young at an early, formative stage. For the group between the ages of 14 and 28, the instrument to that end is the Communist Youth League, or the Komsomol. Last week, as early snow and biting cold embraced Moscow, thousands of Komsomoltsy marched through the capital to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their organization and to pledge, amid red banners and slogans, unsparing efforts in the struggle for Communism...
...chal lenge the present generation, and many young Russians find indoctrination a bore. The growing dissent and dissatisfaction in Russia doubtlessly have infected the Komsomol, along with other elements of Soviet society. Party Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev underlined the leadership's concern when he told Komsomoltsy in his 50th anniversary speech: "Class enemies disguising themselves as the friends of youth strive to draw politically unstable, inexperienced young people into their nets to blunt their class and revo lutionary vigilance with false arguments of a bourgeois liberal nature." After that lofty en garde, Brezhnev complained about the poor showing...
...last year, the Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers assembled in Moscow to hymn the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. The party hacks were in full control, and neither Solzhenitsyn nor any other dissenter was permitted to mount the rostrum. So Solzhenitsyn put his protest in the form of a letter to the congress that was circulated privately among the delegates and soon dominated all the corridor discussion. It has become the credo of dissenters not only in Russia but in Eastern Europe as well. Excerpts...