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...immediate cause was an ignominious defeat at the hands of Spain in the European basketball championships four weeks ago, an event that had been won by the Soviet Union for 18 years straight. But, said the Communist youth newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda, the real roots of the problem lay in the fact that the players had lost their proletarian humility. Since their stunning gold-medal win in Munich, it wrote, the players had turned into overconfident performers whose once brilliant strategies had become "unimaginative and stereotyped." Soviet Basketball Federation officials, the paper charged, "created a climate of total permissiveness...
...paper applauded the fact that some of the players risk court action for trying to smuggle in Western luxuries from their foreign travels, a privilege that Soviet athletes had long come to take for granted. "The national team returned home burdened not with a heap of victories," complained Komsomolskaya Pravda, "but with a heap of unprecedented customs violations...
...chicken stands may or may not be cheered to learn that two wandering Russians have found these same roadside landscapes to be a paradise of-well, neon-lit motels and fried-chicken stands. The two wanderers-Boris Strelnikov, Washington correspondent of Pravda, and Vasily Peskov, a visiting journalist from Komsomolskaya Pravda-spent six weeks driving 10,000 miles from coast to coast and discovered all manner of things to be praised and emulated...
EASTERN EUROPE AND U.S.S.R. Water pollution and land reclamation threaten 26 species in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Rumania and Poland. A leading Soviet conservationist asked in a recent issue of Komsomolskaya Pravda: "Why do we see almost no flocks of cranes and geese in April? Why can we hear no quail in the fields in June?" One answer, as in much of the West, is the overuse of pesticides. Recently, two Soviet conservationists boldly and publicly accused none other than the Minister of Agriculture of illegal hunting in game preserves supposedly protected by the ministry...
...adulatory overkill has grated on the nerves of many Russians. The Soviet youth newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, under the headline WHAT FOR?, has attacked the "pomposity and bombast" surrounding some of the celebrations. Wry jokes circulate in Moscow, not about Lenin the man-whom Russians indeed revere-but about Lenin the oversold commodity. One tells of a contest for the best statue honoring the writer Pushkin. First prize is awarded for a statue of Lenin, second for a statue of Lenin reading Pushkin, and third for one of Pushkin reading Lenin. (Pushkin, as it happens, died 33 years before Lenin...