Word: gazeta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Times must be hard for the enemies of capitalist decadence; Russia's Literaturnaya Gazeta has laid down a heavy ideological barrage against Film Director Alfred Hitchcock, accusing him of "antihumanistic attitude toward art" and "psychological sadism." But as so often happens, a Communist putdown is a bourgeois blurb. "Millions of his spectators," says the Gazeta, "take Hitchcock's sinister feelings seriously and sigh with relief when the dark in the movie house is dispelled and the lights come on again...
...Harper & Row, 1970), unnecessary incarceration, forced therapy and denial of legal rights are common in the United States. The enormous difference, constitutional rights and traditions aside, is that in the Soviet Union punitive psychiatry appears to be an instrument of policy. With expedient blindness to the Hippocratic oath, Meditsinskaya Gazeta, a leading Russian medical journal, has asserted that physicians "can have no secrets from the state...
...matter is also believed to have been discussed at the hastily called Crimean summit conference two weeks ago attended by all Soviet bloc countries except Rumania. In what was read by observers as an outgrowth of that conference, Literaturnaya Gazeta, a leading Soviet weekly, last week reprinted a Polish article rebuking Rumania for taking a neutral position in the Chinese-Soviet dispute. In an even harsher tone-the official Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap reported that Chinese Premier Chou En-lai would visit Albania, Yugoslavia and Rumania this fall. Since all three nations have asserted varying degrees of independence from Moscow...
...Owns Boardwalk? While the impact of the Pentagon papers continues to reverberate in the U.S., a Marxist explanation comes from the Soviet magazine Literaturnaya Gazeta. In the Russian view, the secret study was published because three factions of monopolists were warring among themselves...
According to Gazeta, the three factions are: 1) makers of consumer and civilian goods, 2) suppliers of military goods not used in the Viet Nam War, and 3) military-industrial manufacturers whose goods are used in the war. As the Soviets see it, the civilian-sector monopolists and non-Viet Nam military-industrial monopolists became disenchanted with the war. Upset over the inflation and shrinking revenues caused by the Indochina involvement, the monopolists then arranged for the documents to be published as an embarrassment to the military-industrial monopolists who had reaped profits from the Viet Nam conflict. Each...