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...time, a massive Soviet press campaign was mounted against the two towering spiritual leaders of Russia's "democratic movement," Physicist Andrei Sakharov and Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn. With an evident absence of spontaneity, hundreds of indignant letter writers spewed forth abuse against the two intellectuals in the pages of Pravda, Izvestia and other official newspapers. In part, the list of Sakharov's and Solzhenitsyn's accusers read like an "S. Hurok presents" concert program. Violinists David Oistrakh and Leonid Kogan wrote that Sakharov is "stirring up the dying coals of the cold war." Dmitri Shostakovich, who once praised...
...irony of World War II was that it brought many Russians a small degree of freedom. Stalin entreated his "brothers and sisters" to unite in defending the motherland. Pravda even printed one of Akhmatova's heroic war poems. Her dormant fame was reawakened. In 1944 she received a standing ovation after reading her poetry from a Moscow stage. But two years later, with the war won, Stalin was asking. "Who organized this standing ovation?" Akhmatova was proscribed again and her son was rearrested...
Even more significant, perhaps, is the Soviet treatment of Watergate; it has received only brief mentions in Pravda and Izvestia. Both in Moscow and in Eastern Europe, party cadres have portrayed the affair as a conspiracy by American "reactionaries" to sabotage Nixon's rapprochement with the Soviet Union. One lecturer claimed there was a parallel with John Kennedy, who, he said, was assassinated because he intended to improve relations with the Soviet Union...
...wilderness of neon-lit motels and fried-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...
...films before that date now qualify as bourgeois garbage. In the aftermath of May, Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin formed the Dziga-Vertov group, a revolutionary film collective (that for a long time had just those two members). Their early work consisted of a series of quasi-documentary polemics (Pravda, See You at Mao, Struggles in Italy) that managed to alienate most of the critics who had made Godard's reputation in the middle sixties...