Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Writers sometimes prevail over conformity and thought control in the Communist world. In Poland, where the relatively liberal government imposes an elaborate system of censorship, dissident writers are courageously risking retribution to produce a flourishing underground literature. In China-the most repressive of Communist nations-several long-banned novels and poems have begun to reappear in print. Although some of the authors had succumbed to the savagery of China's recurrent anti-intellectual campaigns, others had survived to witness this small but significant victory for the word...
...boom in illegal samizdat (self-published) periodicals, manifestoes and even books that are currently circulating by the thousands of copies throughout Poland. Reflecting a wide range of dissident opinion, the samizdat publications are symptomatic of the mounting discontent that has made the country potentially the most unstable nation in Communist East Europe. Today there are at least twelve regularly published underground journals. Their criticism of the regime of Party Chief Edward Gierek* goes well beyond economic problems. It includes sweeping demands for democracy and freedom from Soviet hegemony...
...industrial city of Radom, where embattled workers burned down Communist Party headquarters in 1976, the latest issue of the samizdat magazine Robotnik (The Worker) began circulating last week. It focused on an injustice that weighs heavily on the Polish proletariat: lack of any real representation. Robotnik called for genuine workers' organizations to replace the officially sponsored trade unions, which the journal called "dead institutions...
Even more worrisome to non-Communist shipping executives, the Soviets' Tenth Five-Year Plan (1976-80) includes long-range programs for growth in tonnage and better technology that imply an even greater invasion of Western routes...
...book Clearing the Air, Schorr tells of a luncheon in Paris during which Paley congratulated him on a CBS documentary about East Germany. "Its dramatic climax," writes Schorr, "showed Walther Ulbricht, the East German Communist leader, upbraiding me for my questions and finally storming out of the room in full view of the camera. 'What I admired most,' said Paley, 'was the coolness with which you sat there and looked at him while he was yelling...