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...situation that had to be remedied, agreed the Communist magazines Kommunist and Party Life, was the tendency of many professors to duck the searching political questions thrown at them by their students. No one, however, dared to point out that professors could scarcely be expected to commit themselves at a time when even the Central Committee of the Communist Party flagrantly evaded public comment on anything more controversial than steel quotas...
...Russian proverb, to which latter-day Russians add, "and to every Bolshevik his day of confession." Last week confession day came around for the woodiest old vegetable in the Bolshevik truck garden: Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skriabin, better known by his party name: Molotov (meaning The Hammer). In a letter to Kommunist, top party organ of the Central Committee, First Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Molotov, who got into the movement in 1906 at the age of 16, admitted that at the ripe, Red age of 64 he had committed a "theoretically mistaken and politically harmful" blunder by understating the extent...
Western newsmen have long known that the Russian press, which is one of the biggest in the world (more than 7,100 newspapers and about 1,500 magazines), is also the worst. But it is a rare day in May when the Russians themselves agree. The current issue of Kommunist, the official magazine of the Communist Party's Central Committee, decided that there was no ducking that dreary fact any longer. Soviet papers, said Kommunist in a candid piece of selfcriticism, all sing the same dull tune in the same dull way. "If it were not for the titles...
...Russian press so bad? Answered Kommunist: "Most of the local papers use propaganda articles sent out by the press bureau in Moscow, and very few employ their own authors." Even when they do, the writers so closely ape Moscow that they write "like twins whom it is difficult to tell apart." The magazines are as bad as the newspapers. Most of them are "dull and featureless." Even the overriding concern of the Russian press with serving the party line fails, says Kommunist. "Propaganda articles are as a rule devoted to the past," and filled with official statistics and statements strung...
...editorials in the papers, concludes Kommunist, follow a rigid pattern. They begin by discussing a problem, such as agriculture. "Then follows the inevitable odnako" which means "however," and which automatically signals in every editorial the switch from praise to criticism. Says Kommunist, quoting a typical editorial: "Odnako, not everywhere is genuine concern shown . . . Such a situation is intolerable. Party and Soviet organizations must...