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Polls conducted by Soviet sociologists show a surprisingly low degree of ideological fervor among the educated young. When 2,204 graduate students in Leningrad were asked "What are your desires for the near future?", 60.6% replied that they wanted interesting jobs, while only 18.4% chose the good Communist option of wanting to participate in the construction of a new industrial complex. In a sampling of workers attending political study groups in the Estonian capital of Tallin, less than 1% said they were interested in learning about the philosophy of Communism...
FRANCE. Soon after the French Communist Party marked its 50th anniversary at the end of 1970, it was embarrassed by two events in the East bloc: the Polish riots and the Leningrad trials. In each instance the party was highly critical. Traditionally conservative and doctrinaire, the French party was once so slavishly obedient to Moscow that its official newspaper, L'Humanité, described the Soviet repression of Hungary in 1956 under the incredible headline BUDAPEST SMILES AMONG THE RUINS. Under Georges Marchais, 50, who has taken over active direction of the party from ailing Party Secretary Waldeck Rochet...
Also important is the fact that for millions of voters, Communism as it is practiced east of the Elbe exerts not a vague attraction but a specific revulsion, periodically reinforced by events like Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the Leningrad trials. Moscow, preoccupied with China and a stuttering economy, grudgingly gives the Western European parties greater autonomy than ever. But the Kremlin's influence is still so pervasive that for countless voters, as French Socialist Guy Mollet once remarked, "The Communists are not of the left but of the East." As long as that is true, Western Europe will continue...
...result was a streamlined reproduction of the Leningrad-Kirov Don Quixote that Nureyev had learned as a young dancer. The old knight, played by Helpmann himself, tottered through a swirl of swinging Spanish skirts, roistering toreadors and intricate incidental dancing in the market square in search of Dulcinea. The Don thinks he finds the lady disguised as a saucy innkeeper's daughter, but from there on Cervantes is left far behind. The daughter, who is to marry a rich old fop, really yearns for a poor barber (Nureyev). The lovers flee, the old knight pursues, and much horseplay...
...governments. "They use their elbows," said the head of one of Israel's 25 immigrant centers, referring to the East Europeans. Not the Soviet Jews. Most are so accustomed to life under totalitarianism that they speak in whispers, distrust all government functionaries and shy away from decisions. One Leningrad doctor, hired by a health insurance company, was aghast when his new boss told him to pick a vacation date. In Jerusalem, a newly arrived photographer from Moscow hesitated when TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin bought him Coca-Cola at an outdoor café. "It was a reflex action," the photographer...