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...Soyuz' keel was reportedly laid in 1935 along with those of two sister battleships, Trety Internatsional (the Third International), launched this year and still being fitted out, and Sovietskaya Ukraina (the Soviet Ukraine), not yet off the Leningrad ways...
...disbanded in 1941 to boost wartime morale, and possibly to please the other nations of the Grand Alliance. But the fact marked no real change in Russia's rulers; religion was still a menace. Last week the Soviet Society for Political and Scientific Research, by way of the Leningrad radio, announced a new, all-out campaign against the "medieval Christian outlook." The drive, to be conducted on "an entirely scientific basis," will involve a large number of propagandists armed with anti-religious films and some 20 million pamphlets. Trumpeted the society's chairman: "The struggle against the Gospel...
...just how the U.S. might attack the U.S.S.R. All that is necessary, he said, is to explode large hydrogen bombs on a line extending north & south across Europe. The radioactivity "would be carried eastward by the winds, destroying all life within a strip 1,500 miles wide, extending from Leningrad to Odessa, and 3,000 miles deep, extending from Prague to the Ural Mountains...
Throughout the rest of Europe, TV development ranges from the prenatal to the spoon stage. The Netherlands has an experimental station at Eindhoven and is planning another. Soviet Russia boasts transmitters at Leningrad and Moscow and is still at work on a coaxial cable to link them up with Kiev, and Sverdlovsk in the Urals. Russians seem to have reached the second phase in television: they are beginning to complain about it. In a recent letter to the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva, carping Reader Vladimir Savochkin demanded more TV sets, more and better programs, spare parts for fans who are building...
...Russians are at work on three 35,000-ton battleships, each "equipped with two catapult towers for firing radio-controlled aerial torpedoes." Two of them, reputedly laid down at Archangel in 1942, may already be in commission; the other is reported to have been delayed by German bombing at Leningrad during...