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Though the Moscow Olympics are not due to open until this Saturday, the refurbished Lenin Stadium was swarming with more than 15,000 people for much of last week. Gymnasts, musicians, students and some 100 truckloads of soldiers were on hand to rehearse the opening ceremony; the troops were readying flash-card routines, including a rendering of the ubiquitous Teddy-bear mascot Misha. As if to underscore the official line that all was going well, newspapers trumpeted a statement by an African sports official that "in spite of the attempts by certain circles at frustrating" the Games, "they will...
...U.S.S.R. completed 99 Olympic construction projects at a cost of more than $3 billion. Ten new sports facilities were built and eight reconstructed, including the centerpiece Lenin Stadium (capacity: 103,000). Nine hotels and an Olympic Village consisting of 18 buildings, each 16 stories high (14,000 lucky Muscovites will live there after the Games), also went...
Under the blazing Greek sun, near the temples of Hera and Zeus, the Olympic torch was lit last week. For the next month, 4,820 runners-one for each kilometer of the route via Bulgaria and Rumania-will carry the flame to the newly refurbished Lenin Stadium on the Moscow River. When the torch gets there, the path should be clear. Moscow police are seeing to that, with zealous traffic control in preparation for the Games. Their strategy has totalitarian simplicity: no drivers, no traffic. Although Moscow motorists usually cruise at about 50 m.p.h., police have begun stopping cars going...
Cinema is for us the most important of the arts," declared Lenin in 1922, and not since Pope Julius ii commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling had the proclamation of a chief of state resulted in such a sunburst of high art. A troika of young film maker-theoreticians-Sergei Eisenstein, V.I. Pudovkin and Alexander Dovzhenko-seized the movie toy and remade it into a sophisticated machine that dazzled the world intelligentsia, even as it instructed the Russian proletariat. As long as the party hierarchy was amused too, all was well. But in 1924 Stalin rephrased the famous...
Books for the masses are published in huge numbers in the U.S.S.R., but they are not always the uplifting tracts that Marx and Lenin envisioned as the people's literature. New police and spy thrillers and science fiction are snapped up by fans on publication day. The country's top mystery writer is currently Julian Semyonov, 48, whose latest, Tass Is Authorized to State ..., was published in an edition numbering 100,000 copies. It is the stirring tale of intrepid KGB agents vs. the CIA in an unnamed African country-manifestly Angola...