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...SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.).* "Television, Moscow-Style," a sampling of Soviet TV including a variety show called Ogonek (meaning "small flame"), which gets a top People's Nielovich rating in the U.S.S.R...
...November 23, 1958 the Soviet Magazine, Ogonek, which has a format and circulation in the U.S.S.R. roughly comparable to that of Life in the U.S.A., published an article entitled "We Visit Them; They Visit Us." It describes the reciprocal tours of student and youth groups which were among the activities provided for by the cultural exchange agreement between the American and Soviet Governments concluded in January, 1958. The first such exchange in the spring of 1958 consisted of small parties of student newspaper editors. The second was on a larger scale, involving 41 Americans who were in the U.S.S.R...
...article by Anatole Valiuzhenich which appeared in Ogonek concerning the U.S.-U.S.S.R. cultural exchange strikes me as accurate in some respects, but definitely below the belt in intent. As a group we were often disorganized and politically naive, especially the evening at Moscow University described in the article...
...American freedom (of speech) but we discovered that our freedom (of disagreement) appeared to the Russians as anarchic lack of discipline. The fact that we did not always make fools of ourselves, and that we asked the Russians a number of embarrassing questions does not appear in the Ogonek article, due to the fact that it does not support the Soviet line that Americans are invariably helpless before the Soviet concept of truth...
...addition to the very real naivete with which we as a delegation approached many situations, it is important to remember that on a number of occasions during his visit to the United States the author of the Ogonek article had been rather hard pressed to answer the questions put to him. His experiences with the American press and at Harvard were, on his own admission, especially unpleasant in this regard--a fact which could not be admitted in Ogonek, but which could be avenged through the satirical use of Harvard as a symbol of the rich capitalist class which oppresses...