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Boardsailers receive some official encouragement, but rock groups and their fans have come under increasing attack in the Soviet press. One group called Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine) was denounced in the Communist youth daily Komsomolskaya Pravda for "giving thousands of spectators dangerous injections of dubious ideas." As expressed in Time Machine lyrics, the ideas (for example: "There's no point in believing promises any more") hardly seem likely to set off alarm bells in the Kremlin. Still, Time Machine has made no albums and has been banned from playing in Moscow. New regulations have forced discos to cut back...
Equally disturbing as rock to the Soviet authorities has been the growth of unauthorized clubs of teen-age soccer followers, known as fanaty, or fans. According to a censorious article in Komsomolskaya Pravda, fanaty members are senior technical-and vocational-school students from Moscow's working-class quarter. Characterizing them as a "dubious tribe of sports-minded hooligans," the paper criticized them for picking fights in the subway, waking up neighborhoods with their all-night singing, and defacing walls and bridges with graffiti boosting their teams...
Meanwhile the Communist Party youth newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda, depicted the U.S. as a society "where terror is a phenomenon of daily life." And Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini said about Reagan, even before he knew the President was not seriously hurt: "We are not going to mourn...
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...