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Russia was in the grip of Asian flu last week. Word filtered through the Soviet censorship that the widespread epidemic has hit the great cities of western Russia as well as towns in Siberia and the Caucasus. Leningrad was reported to have closed all schools for the first ten grades. In Moscow 500 doctors plus extra nurses and medical students were assigned to hospital duty. Vaccine, though claimed to be effective, was admittedly scarce; medical workers had top priority; next, those in transportation and communications...
Frye, an associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, traveled last summer to Moscow and Leningrad. He said that he had found it somewhat difficult to get around, not because the Soviet regime had tightened regulations for foreign travel, but due to an improved bureaucracy and increased red tape...
...absence of any reliable news from official sources, these few had only gotten a glimpse of the truth, and that by rather haphazard means. A man and woman from Leningrad told Abrams that rumors concerning the real situation in Hungary had spread through the city after bottles were found along the railroad tracks, containing scribbled messages pleading for help from Hungarian youths being deported to Siberia...
This couple also told him of student unrest in Russian universities, but Abrams expressed difficulty in assessing the exact extent of such discontent. "I heard conflicting stories," he told the Mirror. "Some students from Leningrad told me there had been a protest meeting at Leningrad University. When it was over, 45 students were expelled and were seen no more. They just disappeared. Other students denied these stories...
...state, Comrade Malenkov not only did not hold Stalin back, but with great skill made use of the weaknesses and habits of Stalin during the last years of his life. On many occasions, he prompted him to actions which deserve the strongest condemnation." One such occasion: the 1949 "Leningrad affair," in which hundreds of ranking Communists were purged on manufactured evidence...