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...Leningrad Theological Academy, Archpriest Alexander Ossipov, as well as Archpriest Paul Darmansky, Father Nicolai Spassky, and "other servants of the Church" for having "publicly blasphemed the Name of God" and having "published against their church articles or pamphlets issued by newspapers and the atheist press in the U.S.S.R." (i.e., Pravda and Izvestia). The important point : although the Russian Orthodox Church often seems totally sub servient to the government, it now feels strong enough to excommunicate priests simply for preaching Communism...
...visit Russia was a fear that in Russia, too, the people would enthusiastically respond to him as a symbol of the U.S. Last week, with the President preparing for a mid-June trip to the Philippines, Formosa, Japan and South Korea, Khrushchev worked desperately to discredit the symbol. Pravda followed up with a warning that it would do Ike "no good" to go to Japan...
...wrote Envy, a short novel that may be one of the true originals of Soviet fiction. It was an immediate popular and critical hit; Pravda praised it as "masterful" and "infinitely subtle." What must have baffled Olesha, and what is still baffling today, is that the commissars read it as an attack on "little people, petty bourgeois washed out of their lairs by the Revolution." It was in fact the opposite: a memorable attack on a system that crushed both the flesh and spirit of humanity. After Olesha published several other works, the commissars took a second look...
Because he made his heroes ineffectual drifters, he was at first able to deceive Pravda and the party critics; but it is plain that his fools speak the truth...
...this, intoned Komsomolskaya Pravda, is symptomatic of a dreadful laxity. First, if Sasha's classmates had been the militant atheists they should have been, they would have found out about his non-atheism earlier and gone to work on him. And second, they should never have admitted him. "In our country," lectured Komsomolskaya Pravda, "the first country of mass atheism in the world, religion is a citizen's private affair. But how can Komsomol members consider religion a private affair when it affects the Komsomol? They were not admitting him to a club of pigeon fanciers...