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Most Russian intellectuals listened in tight-lipped silence as word of Nikita Khrushchev's latest cultural crackdown (TIME, March 22) filtered out to the provinces. Not so the writers and artists of Leningrad, Russia's second city. When the local commissars met to give them the word, the intellectuals talked right back...
...Leningrad edition of Pravda reported acidly last week that the curator of the West European art history section of Leningrad's famed Hermitage Museum rose to defend "formalistic distortions and asserted that 'this is buoyant, creative art.' " What's more, the prominent director of the Comedy Theater, Nikolai P. Akimov, "furiously defended the right to unlimited experimentation with form." Painter Leonid A. Tkachenko not only backed up colleagues who were under attack, but "did not give a correct evaluation of criticism directed at himself...
...smoked salmon to begin with; a small beefsteak with potatoes and green Cuban tomatoes to follow; a piece of cake and an orange for dessert, with coffee. As first-class passengers, we got vodka and wine; tourist passengers got nothing stronger than mineral water, and three civil engineers from Leningrad complained loudly. "It's regulations, comrades," said the stewardess stiffly. At last one engineer remembered the bottle of Cuban rum he had bought at the airport, and things got livelier...
Last week came an angry gripe in Literaturnaya Gazeta from a Siberian housewife who demanded that Leningrad stop sending its prostitutes 2,735 miles to Irkutsk and surrounding villages. The housewife was especially upset about a young lady named Tosca, whose fame was so great that it preceded her arrival in Siberia. "Won't this piece of goods find admirers even in a new place?" asked the matron. "She probably will. I know that the wives of a few Bodaibo miners, for example, asked the 'authorities to stop sending the likes of Tosca to Bodaibo. This desire...
...scientists soon pooh-poohed the salamander saga, it made the front pages of most U.S. newspapers, which since Sputnik I have tended to overplay far-out Soviet scientific claims. Then a Russian scientist debunked the story. Professor Gleb Lozino-Lozinsky. head of the space biology laboratory at the Leningrad Institute of Cytology, disclosed that it had been lifted from a children's book, and "has nothing to do with science." Snapped he: "The author of this tale should be punished." From Radio Moscow: Siberian silence...