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...soldier's return was chronicled in a subtle, stylish new poem by Tvardovsky that was spread across two pages of Izvestia under a warmly approving introduction by Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, Khrushchev's son-in-law. In Stalin's day, for all his buffoonery, Terkin ultimately had to symbolize "the ideal Soviet soldier"; in his latest adventure, he is a cockily irreverent figure who gets killed in battle and goes to a "nether world" that turns out to be a sort of Stalinsville on the Styx...
...them. However, the poet also urges Russians to stop harping on Stalinism, which has been Khrushchev's line of late. Terkin's resurrection was a sign that Khrushchev had decided to soften a campaign against controversial writing that has been going on since December. In fact, Editor Adzhubei noted reassuringly, Nikita liked the poem and laughed loudly when it was read to him before publication...
Everywhere there are signs of Nikita's three grandsons, the children of his daughter Rada and Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei. Toys and bikes are parked near flower beds. Aleksei Jr., a towheaded eight-year-old with hornrimmed glasses, zooms around in a green, gasoline-powered Cheetah Cub Car, an American-made miniature sports model that Dad picked up on a visit to the U.S. The seat of the Cheetah is covered with real leopard skin...
...irate editor found even less to applaud in the coverage from abroad. Adzhubei ticked off his gripes: Russia's foreign correspondents are poor in foreign languages; they produce meditations "bordering on bourgeois objectivity"; they are punk photographers; they spend all their time cribbing from the bourgeois press. "Where, as they say, is the burning information at first hand...
Where indeed? With defects so glaring, it would seem a wonder that anyone in Russia reads the papers at all. But Adzhubei was satisfied that he could at least count on his readers. In Russia, the "Soviet people have immense trust in their press and respect...