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...revealed some shocking historical misconceptions in the minds of Marx's progeny. Conducted in 1976-77 by an official government youth agency, the poll quizzed a representative sampling of 814 Communist youth leaders ages 14 through 30. The results, published in last month's issue of Ifju Kommunist (Young Communist), show an almost counterrevolutionary ignorance about Communist history...
Meanwhile, Soviet newspapers and radio broadcasts are filled with familiar-sounding exhortations: insulate doors and windows, keep down temperatures in apartments, try not to use scarce gas for cooking and hot-water bathing. As if surprised, the Armenian party paper Kommunist declared: "A fuel crisis is a serious, disastrous occurrence, even on the scale of a single region," Welcome to the 1970s...
China's domestic policies have not been spared. Says the Soviet ideological journal Kommunist, China is wracked by "general social disorder, economic chaos and discontent." Tass charged that the Chinese people have suffered "a sharp drop in living standards, while millions have been repressed or exiled." The news agency also accuses Peking of grossly favoring the Han Chinese majority while mistreating its ethnic minorities...
...Honecker, leans toward the theory that old "Spitzbart" (meaning pointed beard) was nudged. Leonhard, a former aide of Ulbricht's, notes that the Soviet press has recently slighted Ulbricht to an astonishing degree. An article on the 25th anniversary of the founding of the East German party in Kommunist, the leading Soviet ideological journal, totally ignored Ulbricht's role in establishing the party. At the same time, the Soviet press has recently given great prominence to Honecker's speeches...
...curious switch-about, it is now the Russians who are complaining that the Chinese are in collusion with the U.S. to "undermine the united front of the struggle against imperialism." Kommunist described a vast plot, speculating that Mao and the U.S. have joined forces to encircle the Soviet Union. It also warned that the Chinese are trying to create a political following of their own that "would be directed against the world Communist movement...