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Once again, Russia's heavy artillery was rolled out against that nation's greatest living novelist last week. In a major policy pronouncement, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda vowed that vigilance would henceforth be exercised to "sweep away" Alexander Solzhenitsyn and other "wretched renegades." The author's banned novels, Cancer Ward and The First Circle, which were bestsellers in the West, were excoriated by Pravda as "lampoons on the Soviet Union which blacken the achievements of our fatherland and the dignity of the Soviet people...
Even more ominously, the paper equated Solzhenitsyn with dissidents, like Andrei Amalric, who are now serving sentences in concentration camps for precisely the offenses Pravda attributes to Solzhenitsyn. So menacing was Pravda's denunciation that many Sovietologists fear for the writer's physical safety. They believe that Soviet hardliners, angered by the Nobel Prize award to Solzhenitsyn this month, have increased the pressure to bring the beleaguered author to trial...
...worst days of the cold war, Tass called the small, seven-seat U-8 Beechcraft a "warplane" and went on to claim that U.S. overseas bases were "hotbeds of aggression, intervention and espionage" created by "the mad desire of U.S. imperialism to dictate its will to all mankind." Pravda hinted that the U.S. had "reincarnated" the policies of John Foster Dulles. It also made an absurd comparison between the U-8's accidental overflight and the U-2 spy-plane affair of 1960. While the two flights "might have had different concrete aims," said Pravda, both were "aimed against...
...work is about any phenomena. Rather their films are a series of formal choices made according to a given criteria, and relate to possible criteria for formal choices, not strikes or demonstrations. Their political films are about making political films. Works like See You at Mao and Pravda are definitely not intended to incite the masses; rather they are to serve as objects of analysis for Glauber Rocha, Chris Marker's SLON group in Belgium, the Medvedkin group in France, and other cadres of political filmmakers wrestling with the creation of revolutionary forms...
...standards, many Soviet hospitals are as crowded and shabby as the New York City subway. The typical building is a grim fortress with old equipment in poor repair. The food is plentiful but dull; instead of tissues and toilet paper, the patient makes do with yesterday's Pravda. The institutions are well described by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his novel, The Cancer Ward. To some patients, though, such hospitals look like paradise. Among them are alcoholics, a major Soviet problem, who can wind up in "corrective-labor detention centers...