Word: komsomol
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...last week. It soon began to melt and turn to slush. In spite of the slush, young Muscovites turned up coated and booted in several of the city's squares where wooden platforms had been laid for dancing. The gala occasion: the 30th anniversary of Russia's Komsomol (Young , Communist League), the elite, junior grade, of the Soviet Union...
...Postoffice. The Moscow festivities were the windup of a month-long celebration of Komsomol accomplishments in which praise and exhortation were about equally mixed. Aram Khachaturian's young son Karen, a fledgling composer himself, published a cantata, Youth! Live Long and Blossom! Celebrating in their own way, members of the Chkalov Air Club made a record parachute jump without oxygen equipment, from 21,325 feet...
Messrs. Smith and Murphy are characters in Konstantin Simonov's new play about the U.S., The Russian Question, which keeps up this kind of dialogue for three acts. As the play opened last week at Moscow's Lenin Komsomol Theater amid critical huzzahs, the big news was that the Soviet Government had chosen it as a deliberate device to form Russia's views...
...with a Future. A graduate of the Komsomol (Young Communist League) and of the diplomatic school, the Soviet P.R.O. has been around more than most Russian civil servants, but never to the U.S. During the Battle of Britain he was third secretary (later first counselor) in the embassy at London. Two and a half years ago he was recalled to Moscow, promoted to his present job, which included censorship until the post office took it over six months ago. It is a post for men with a future. Apollon Alexandrovich Petrov, one of his predecessors, is now Ambassador to China...
Observed Komsomolskaya Pravda indignantly: "The worst part of the whole affair is that, having spent three days in a different institution, Bylinkin did not notice any difference in the nature of the work of two such different organizations as an Oblast Komsomol Committee and an Oblast Agricultural Committee...