Word: komsomols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like all totalitarian regimes, the Soviet Union attempts to seize and shape the minds of its young at an early, formative stage. For the group between the ages of 14 and 28, the instrument to that end is the Communist Youth League, or the Komsomol. Last week, as early snow and biting cold embraced Moscow, thousands of Komsomoltsy marched through the capital to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their organization and to pledge, amid red banners and slogans, unsparing efforts in the struggle for Communism...
...blow by removing Aleksandr Shelepin, 49, an ex-head of the secret police, from his job as Deputy Premier and Party Secretary and demoting him to an obscure and less powerful post as head of the Russian trade unions. Shelepin had surrounded himself with a group of former Komsomol (youth league) officials who are hawkish in foreign policy, favor strict control of the intellectuals and are known as "metal eaters" because they stress heavy industry rather than consumer goods...
...Chairman Mao?" The association was founded in 1947 by 24 American campus leaders, including White House Aide Douglass Cater, then a recent Harvard graduate, after a trip to the 1946 World Student Congress in Prague, where lavishly financed Communist groups stole the show; one of their organizers was Komsomol Leader Aleksandr Shelepin, who was later to head the Soviet internal security agency...
...again, this time kicking up a few vaguely dangerous poetic heels at the party during a Moscow meeting on the 70th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian village poet, Sergei Esenin. In his 52-line Letter to Esenin, Evtushenko raged oratorically on about how the "red-cheeked Komsomol leader thunders with his fists at us poets and wants to knead our souls like wax." The lines rang a bell for Sergei Pavlov, the red-cheeked secretary of the Komsomol (Young Communist League). He stormed out of the meeting and returned with four militiamen to arrest the bard...
...most unmanageable student, violated every curfew regulation, fought with his instructors. He lectured a teacher in front of the whole company on the evils of the Kirov's "systematic wearing-down of the individual," took private English lessons and read J. D. Salinger. He refused to join the Komsomol, a training group for the Communist Party. He was guilty of fraternizing with dancers from foreign touring companies. He was not being subversive, or even rebelling. Nureyev is totally apolitical. He simply wanted to see everybody and anybody who danced...