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...Kremlin chose to magnify the incident into a major diplomatic demarche. In a policy address last week, Politburo Ideologue Mikhail Suslov asserted that U.S. bases on the Soviet periphery imperil his country and prove that Washington is pursuing "a policy of criminal aggression." The Soviets dropped contradictory hints-some to the effect that they might release the Americans this week, others indicating that they might be preparing to put them on trial, just as they had U-2 Pilot Gary Powers...
...system" is incapable of real change and that the official violence of the government (police, prisons, armies) can only be countered by violence. The aim is ultimately to destroy what cannot be reformed. Thus, in essence, they subscribe to the dictum of the 19th century patron saint of anarchy, Mikhail Bakunin, that "the urge to destroy is really a creative urge...
Another of magnitizdat's themes is the contrast between the Soviet Union's technological advances and the wretched living and working conditions endured by many citizens, including the veritable army of shawled grannies who still sweep the street of today's Russia. Mikhail Nozhkin, a young movie actor turned balladeer, sings of Auntie Nyusha, the tireless, smiling cleaning woman who sweeps up the messes of others. She is avoided by an immaculate bureaucrat, who fears he would dirty his clean hands if he touched her. While others want pensions and vacations, she never stops working. "Reactors...
...already on the loose. This summer's third edition will list more than 80,000. Nor is English the only language to be acronymized. The Library of Congress publishes a glossary of 23,600 Russian acronyms and abbreviations, ranging from the familiar MIG plane (designed in part by Mikhail losifovich Gurevich) to AGITPROP (for Agitation and Propaganda Department...
...same cannot be said of his Politburo colleagues. Several?notably Mikhail Suslov, 67, Arvid Pelshe, 71, as well as Kosygin?are aging and sickly. Kosygin is said to have asked permission to retire several times; he was reportedly turned down in the interests of preserving a balance in the collective leadership. The Politburo membership has remained virtually unchanged for five years, however, and it is possible that Brezhnev may soon encourage a number of its members to retire. At least some Politburo appointments would probably go to younger men, refleeting the fact that three-fourths of Russia's 14 million...