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...Glory! Glory!" chanted 6,000 exultant members of the Young Communist League as their ailing leader, in his deep and slurred growl, began to speak. But a dramatic hush descended over the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses when Brezhnev reached the heart of his 35-minute address. The Komsomol delegates knew, as did Washington and the rest of the world, that the Soviet leader was planning to answer Ronald Reagan's proposal, made earlier this month at Eureka College in Illinois, for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START...
...morning of the holiday, Komsomol (Young Communist) members, soldiers, jeeps and tanks paraded on Red Square, which was closed to the public. Only those privileged few with invitations were permitted to attend, so we watched the parade on television in the dormitory. In the evening, we gathered at the well-furnished apartment (complete with piano, television and Phillips stereo system) of our conversation teacher. Her large living room windows, overlooking the Moscow River, afforded us a commanding view of the holiday fireworks, which illuminated the city and the entire night sky in alternating bursts of green, gold...
Like many students, Borya is a Komsomol member not out of ideological commitment but rather because he feels that party affiliation will enhance his career opportunities. His cynicism toward the government is reflected in a joke he enjoys telling: "What is the most neutral country in the world today? Afghanistan--it's so neutral that it doesn't interfere in even its own internal affairs." From reading the Soviet press and talking with an acquaintance who had returned from military service there, Borya is fully aware of the implications of an agreement of "mutual assistance...
...roar throbbing through the rafters of Moscow's Lenin Komsomol Theater was loud enough to rouse the Soviet Union's founding father in his Kremlin mausoleum. After two decades of sparring with the Soviet authorities, hard rock had triumphantly taken the Lenin stage. The occasion was the premiere of the country's first rock opera, Juno and Avos, by Alexei Rybnikov, a popular composer of movie scores. In addition to guitars, violins, cellos, drum and a chorus of 16, Rybnikov called for electronic instruments-including a Multimoog synthesizer and a Roland paraphonic-rarely used before...
...first act made clear that the show would be Moscow's biggest smash in years, enjoying an open-ended run as part of the Lenin Komsomol's permanent repertory. On opening night the 810-seat theater was jammed. The elite audience, which had received free tickets, cheered lustily, giving Rybnikov and Voznesensky standing ovations...