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...came in an editorial in Red Flag, the party's most authoritative voice. Though the editorial mentioned no names, its meaning was clear. "During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, initiated and led by Chairman Mao," it read, "we have overthrown the top party person in authority taking the capitalist road, smashed the counter-revolutionary line he pursued and shattered his scheme to turn the dictatorship of the proletariat into a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie...
...power. But Mao got wind of the meeting and managed to have it postponed until his return. Then he declared all-out war on Liu. Red Guard cartoons began depicting the gaunt, grey President as licking the boots of American imperialists; wall posters denounced him as a capitalist-lover and a traitor. Liu's wife was forced to attend Red Guard meetings, where she was expected to offer public criticism of herself and her husband...
Rise to Power: Gifted with phenomenal memory and an analytical intelligence that might have taken him to the top of any capitalist corporation, Kosygin advanced swiftly as an efficient, inventive technocrat of the Stalinist era. He became overall boss of the textile industry in 1939, during the war served as deputy chairman of the U.S.S.R. Council of People's Commissars. He soon caught Stalin's eye, and in 1948 became the youngest (43) member of the Politburo...
Boots for Masochists. More and more these days, the songsmiths of Eastern Europe are fitting socialist lyrics to capitalist tunes. A few years ago, TV and radio shows behind the Iron Curtain were dominated by the Soviet Union's decidedly square chastushki (folk songs). Today, Western songs constitute 60% of all the pop music broadcast in the Slavic countries. No wonder wary government censors have demanded that the lyrics be "put into our social context...
...personalities and interests. The organization can claim as members blue-collar militants of the Progressive Labor Party, as well as three-piece suit liberals from ADA. There are anarchist hippies, humanists, Communists and an increasing number of former members of Young Americans for Freedom, a liber tarian laissez faire capitalist group. About 85 per cent of the membership, according to Davidson, serves merely as "shock troops." These are younger members, usually in the "long hair Bobby Dylan syndrome," who turn out for demonstrations but do not go beyond gut reactions to a systematic critique of society. Davidson classifies the remaining...