Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Fira Passer, a short, energetic, middle-aged woman who runs the center, says that most Muscovites who come in are considered to be borderline cases, that is, people in basically good mental health who are temporarily having trouble coping with life. Says she: "They are afflicted with the problem of loneliness and the inability to find a partner or friend-neuroses connected with life in a large city...
...ideological contradiction that is involved: in a Communist society antisocial behavior should be on the wane. "It hits the regime where it hurts most," says the University of South Carolina's Gordon Smith, who has written extensively on Soviet youth and criminal justice. At the root of the problem are such social ills as alcohol abuse, broken families, crowded living conditions-and boredom. "Drunkenness," says Police Lieut. General Pyotr Oleinik, "is the mother of hooliganism...
...Leningrad study found that in most families of youthful offenders one or both parents had a drinking problem. According to an official Soviet report, 84% of young people begin drinking before the age of 16. Because of the high divorce rate and because most wives have jobs, youngsters are too frequently left to their own devices. The days of the extended family, when Babushka (Grandmother) was a stabilizing influence, are disappearing...
...dazzled the world intelligentsia, even as it instructed the Russian proletariat. As long as the party hierarchy was amused too, all was well. But in 1924 Stalin rephrased the famous dictum, and his diaphanous threat holds to this day: "The cinema is the greatest means of mass agitation. Our problem is to take this matter into our own hands...
...flight to Tbilisi was announced. His airport bus proceeded to roll along the tarmac and stop at three different planes; at each one the ground hostess would yell out: "Is this the plane to Tbilisi?" The bus finally came to the fourth-and right-plane. There was only one problem: no pilot. The traveler finally abandoned the effort at 3 a.m., luggage unclaimed and Tbilisi unvisited...