Word: komsomolskaya
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...editor of Moscow's Komsomolskaya Pravda (Truth of Communist Youth, or "Pravda Jr.") called two reporters into his office. Said he: "Set all your current work aside and take an assignment into the 21st century." So the reporters, Sergei Gushchev and Mikhail Vasiliev, interviewed 29 Soviet scientists and wrote a Communist book, obviously meant as a major Soviet showcase: Russian Science in the 21st Century. Now published in the U.S. by McGraw-Hill, the book offers a glimpse at the little-known world of Soviet science. And an unexciting world it seems...
...River. Nesmeyanov is a world-famed organic chemist, and certainly capable of dreaming impressive scientific dreams. But the book that Komsomolskaya Pravda's reporters assembled is singularly meager in scientific imagination. One chapter predicts for the 21st century the mechanization of mines-which is already an accomplished fact in many non-Communist countries. Another tells about hydroelectric stations very run-of-the-river examples, that will be built in 50 years in Siberia. A chapter on surgery describes techniques and operations that have been standard in the outside world for many years. Almost the only unfamiliar glimpse...
...wore a "suspicious-looking" money belt, took pictures of the harbor in Baku and incautiously gave chance Russian acquaintances his copy of Doctor Zhivago and a couple of New York newspapers. The day after that, police expelled James Shultz, 21, an Otis, Kans. boy on a Y.M.C.A. tour. Komsomolskaya Pravda said that Shultz had met in Kiev "a ras cal ready to sell his honor for foreign rags," had given him three Bibles as well as some clothes. ("I don't know of anything I'd rather be charged with," said Shultz's father, a Methodist minister...
Inna, the girl friend who had sponsored Sasha's application, blushed crimson, and Vitali paled in horror. Then, according to Komsomolskaya Pravda, everybody decided that it was just too ridiculous-good old Sasha must have been kidding-and they accepted him anyway. Later, when his membership came up for confirmation by the school Komsomol committee, he admitted once again that he believed in God. His father had been giving him Bible instruction ever since he was a little boy. But when Sasha denied going to church or wearing a cross, the committee decided to confirm his membership...
...this, intoned Komsomolskaya Pravda, is symptomatic of a dreadful laxity. First, if Sasha's classmates had been the militant atheists they should have been, they would have found out about his non-atheism earlier and gone to work on him. And second, they should never have admitted him. "In our country," lectured Komsomolskaya Pravda, "the first country of mass atheism in the world, religion is a citizen's private affair. But how can Komsomol members consider religion a private affair when it affects the Komsomol? They were not admitting him to a club of pigeon fanciers...