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...never had any such softy image. An apparently modest and retiring man who rarely makes TV appearances, Andropov has been trying to impress the masses not with his charisma but with severe and unwavering efficiency. Last week he contributed an 8,000-word article to the theoretical journal Kommunist in which he unequivocally condemned "socalled rolling stones, shirkers, slackers, who, as a matter of fact, sponge off society." Encouraging thriftiness and responsibility, he firmly denounced those who treat state property recklessly or guard private property jealously. His clear implication: the blame for an economic growth rate that last year...
...Soviets hope to meet a full one-third of energy needs in the country's European region through nuclear power. Yet an occasional dissenting voice can be heard. In October 1979, Atomic Engineer Nikolai Dollezhal and Economist Yuri Koryakin published an article in the theoretical journal Kommunist that warned against building more reactors in the heavily populated European region. The article's obvious warning about the safety of Soviet atomic-power plants did not please the Kremlin. A group of top-level Soviet scientists was assembled at an unusual news conference to denounce the article...
What was most worrisome to both national labor organizers and government officials was the continued presence of the 55 Soviet divisions that remain poised within striking distance of Poland. The Soviets, obviously, were still watching. Poland, said the Soviet journal Kommunist last week, was beset "by chaos in the national economy, by the irresponsible use of strikes and by cases of open anti-socialist activity by counterrevolutionary groups." Such statements clearly suggested that the threat of Soviet intervention was still very real, and that renewed labor disputes and strikes, demonstrating the continued inability of the government and the unions...
Soviet TV is the government's loudspeaker to the people. "Television serves and will serve as a mighty weapon of the propaganda of the beautiful," says the party journal, Kommunist. Americans will not be surprised to learn that the propaganda programs are relentlessly boring. They may be somewhat startled, however, to discover that many of the others are astonishingly good...
...publishing the results, Ifju Kommunist placed a large part of the blame on both the school system and the news organs for their neglect of history and the humanities in general. But to some outside observers, the situation seemed to confirm another phrase from the prolific pen of Marx: "All great historic facts and personages recur twice-once as tragedy, and once as farce...