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Russian Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko has had his troubles in the past for criticizing Soviet policies. In recent years, he has also kept up a poetic and suitably critical commentary on the U.S. scene. Last week in Pravda, Yevtushenko published a 111-line poem to Allison Krause, one of the four students killed by National Guard gunfire at Kent State University. His theme was a gesture reportedly made by Allison, 19, on the day before her death. She put a flower in the muzzle of a Guardsman's rifle and said: "Flowers are better than bullets...
...adulatory overkill has grated on the nerves of many Russians. The Soviet youth newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, under the headline WHAT FOR?, has attacked the "pomposity and bombast" surrounding some of the celebrations. Wry jokes circulate in Moscow, not about Lenin the man-whom Russians indeed revere-but about Lenin the oversold commodity. One tells of a contest for the best statue honoring the writer Pushkin. First prize is awarded for a statue of Lenin, second for a statue of Lenin reading Pushkin, and third for one of Pushkin reading Lenin. (Pushkin, as it happens, died 33 years before Lenin...
During the past three months, the substance of Brezhnev's speech has been published in Pravda and discussed at closed party meetings throughout the Soviet Union. By all accounts, it was a scathing attack on shortcomings, waste, inefficiency and mismanagement in the economy (TIME, Jan. 26). Brezhnev spoke of lost productivity because of rampant alcoholism. As one example of mismanagement, he reportedly told of a shipment of four expensive construction cranes from East Germany. All four were shipped clear across the country to Vladivostok, but two of them actually were supposed to go to Odessa. They finally arrived...
...Soviet writer, a human being made of flesh and blood, not a puppet to be pulled on a string." So wrote Andrei Voznesensky in a 1967 letter to Pravda protesting censorship. Pravda pigeonholed the letter, but it appeared in the West, and since then Russia's most brilliant young poet has been scarcely published in his own country, and he has repeatedly been refused permission to travel to the West. The author's latest play, Look Out for Your Faces, was in rehearsal for nine months while awaiting clearance from the Ministry of Culture...
...most personal of the recent portraits comes from two Pravda journalists, Washington-based Boris Strelnikov and his editorial colleague from Moscow. Igor Shatunovsky, who traveled coast to coast on a six-week automobile tour of the U.S. In an eleven-part series under the title "America on the Right and the Left," they applaud American hospitality, motels, suburbia, telephone orders at drive-in restaurants and skyscraper construction ("The building rises by the minute, not by the day or week"). There are touches of naivete: they believe, for example, that drive-in banks are conveniences only for businessmen. There...