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Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: Red China Rebuff | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

Very few of the many records of folk music in foreign languages can be appreciated by the monolingual. MONITOR releases a great many recordings from the Slavic nations, most of which sound like the State Radio Orchestra and Chorus of Byelorussia backed up by the entire population of Byelorussia. The songs are uniformly translated to fit into the following matrix: "My love is in the tavern drinking (national beverage)/The flocks are on the hillside eating (national fodder)/Come away with me, my love for your eyes are like (national cliche)/Come and we will (international cliche...

Author: By Merry W. Maisel, | Title: New Trends In Folk Music | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

Nightmares Relived. Other revelations about other nogoodniks: former Premier Georgy Malenkov had staged the whole sale slaughter of loyal party members in Armenia and Byelorussia; ex-Deputy Premier Lazar Kaganovich, who personally hand-picked Khrushchev from obscurity for his first major job in the '305 as secretary of the Moscow party committee, was assailed as a cruel assassin who had once rejected an old comrade's appeal by scrawling across it: "Only one punishment-death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: The Show Goes On | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

...Western farm expert had never seen anything like it. On a tour last summer of Soviet collective farms, he was shown fields full of weeds, cabbages crawling with caterpillars, diseased corn. At a dairy farm in Byelorussia, 120 cows were jammed into a shed so filthy that the milkmaids took off their shoes rather than risk losing them in the mud. "What I saw was appallingly bad, rundown in every respect," said the expert last week. "But my tour was planned by the Russians themselves, so what I saw must have been far from the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: Marxism Fails on the Farm | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

Today, among party officials, the idea of a "Polish road to socialism" is no longer mentioned, for the chosen road leads mainly to Moscow. In foreign policy decisions, Poland is scarcely more independent than the Ukraine or Byelorussia. Of all the Soviet bloc leaders, Gomulka was first with lavish congratulations for Nikita Khrushchev after he torpedoed the summit conference last year. Last month Warsaw hastened to rename a street and a collective farm after Patrice Lumumba, following Moscow's big propaganda blast in memory of the Congolese "symbol of anti-colonialism." Two "Freedoms." In exchange for this kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: October's Harvest | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

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