Word: migr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because Pravda is, in effect, the voice of the party, the paper does not have a government censor. The editors are responsible for blue-penciling incorrect thinking, but they rarely have to. Explains Arkadi Polishchuk, a New York-based émigré who sometimes writes for Pravda: "A Soviet journalist knows what will pass and what won't. He has an 'inner editor' within him. One step out of line and a journalist's career is washed...
...every cleric, from Patriarch Pimen on down, must be cleared by the Council for Religious Affairs, a government agency that supervises all religious matters. Under these circumstances, contends Father Michael Meyerson-Aksyonov, a convert to Orthodoxy who tried unsuccessfully to enter a Soviet seminary and is an émigré now living in the U.S., "the priest is not the spiritual or moral leader of the community. He is a performer of rites and nothing more...