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Throughout Communism's empire (on which the sun never sets) the faithful commemorated the 25th anniversary of Lenin's death. In Moscow, a smiling Joseph Stalin and other Communist bigwigs sat through ceremonies on the stage of the Bolshoi theater, in front of a color guard that looked strangely like a male chorus line (see cut). In Berlin, meanwhile, the anniversary was marked by an uncommon display of the new Communist sweetness & light-and a prize propaganda boner...
Taking a tip from Lenin's 1921 Russian shift to the New Economic Policy, Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung was striving to ease the strain of revolution by talking of moderation. He hoped to allay the fears of capitalists and technicians, both Chinese and foreigners. New phrases which sounded like U.S. factory slogans urged workers to "study technique and raise production efficiency, cherish your implements and save raw materials." Said a Red soldier in Tsinan: "In the villages we have to eliminate feudalism and boost production, and in the cities we have to protect industry and commerce so that...
Shostakovich, in his music for the Young Guard (TIME, Oct. 25), and Aram Khachaturian, in his score for a film on Lenin, had managed to "reorganize" themselves. Other composers had begun "to rebuild their work," although "the process of their reconstruction proceeds slowly." But Prokofiev's work still smelled of the "marazm [wasting away] of bourgeois culture." Said Khrennikov: Prokofiev obviously had not "drawn the necessary conclusions from the decree of the Central Committee...
...with either the University or its representatives, and his schemes were seldom disguised or minimized. At various times he wanted to change the name of Harvard Square to Washington Square, he tried to ban several "Communist-tinged" student productions, and he introduced a council resolutions to have the words "Lenin" and "Leningrad" stricken from all printed matter in Cambridge...
...there! The most real things in the world are those a child never sees but is told about by the Central Committee . . . Ah, Virginia, in all the world there is nothing real or abiding unless you get it officially from the Kremlin. Santa Claus! Phooey! Thank Karl Marx, thank Lenin, thank Stalin, thank Vishinsky, thank Molotov, thank Gromyko, he was eliminated years ago forever...