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...dogma was certainly specific enough, and many Russians even today have a lingering prejudice against private property. Such an attitude, of course, could put a serious crimp in the Kremlin's ambitious plans to create a consumer-oriented economy. Last week Izvestia attempted through sleight of mind to remove the stigma of ownership from Marxist-Leninist doctrine...
...Comrade Fomenko is right," thundered the editor's reply. "It is high time to stop this nonsense." Though Fomenko had been referring to the large and growing number of Russians who are buying cooperative apartments and building their own homes with government credits, Izvestia's reply presumably extended to the owners of all sorts of worldly possessions...
Lenin's prohibition of private ownership, declared Izvestia, applied only to the bad old days when capitalists were exploiting the workers. But now that there are no longer exploiters and exploited, "whoever thinks personal property means private ownership is in grave error." In fact, explained Izvestia in a wild ideological leap, "there is no gap between private and public ownership. Personal property is just another form of common ownership, both belonging together like the roots and leaves of the trees...
Prosecutor: Your story says that, "As usual, the paper [Izvestia] printed an editorial calling for observance of Public Murder Day." Isn't that slander on the entire Soviet press...
...kitchen. Wife Mary Wilson, best known as the mistress of No. 10 Downing, who still likes to do Harold's cooking and wash his socks, turned out to be a ruble-earning poetess. From Moscow last week came a check for $95 in royalties paid by Izvestia, which printed a ban-the-bomb ballad Mary had written some years ago. The poem, to be sung to the tune of After the Ball...