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...Lenin's hopes that Sorokin would convert to devout Bolshevism were disappointed, and he attacked Sorokin in Pravda, calling him "typical of the most implacable part of the Russian intelligentsia." In 1922, Sorokin was banished forever from Russia. He arrived in the United States several months later...
...Kremlin carefully chose the occupants of the 200 or so seats in the Moscow city courtroom. It excluded everyone but half a dozen relatives of the defendants and twelve or more Soviet journalists, whose reports never appeared in Pravda or Izvestia. Outside the courthouse, in temperatures that reached 50 below zero, protesters crowded against police barricades and dashed from door to door through the swirling snow, only to be turned away because they lacked official passes. Police pushed back a thin, weather-beaten man several times until someone yelled: "What kind of disgraceful situation is this? The father of Galanskov...
...Soviet Union long dismissed reports of unidentified flying objects as mere flights of Western fancy, and the party newspaper Pravda on one occasion derided them as "fairy tales." Pravda will have to change its mind: the Kremlin itself has now decided to keep a closer eye out for flying saucers. After a flurry of UFO sightings in recent weeks, many of them by presumably reliable Aeroflot and military pilots, the Soviet Union has named a team of 18 scientists and air force officers, backed by 1,000 field observers, to study the phenomenon in the Red skies...
...mitigated somewhat last week by the spectacle of four earnest young Americans describing to Russian audiences their desertion from the aircraft carrier Intrepid as a protest against the Viet Nam war. "They're playing it big," sighed a U.S. official. Twice aired on Soviet television and displayed in Pravda, the self-proclaimed "patriotic deserters" were in Moscow in transit to a neutral country where they might "give all our strength to the struggle against the immoral, inhuman...
...favor of the war" but preferred to remain silent. Barilla declared that he was "against war, all war," and that "the majority of Americans do not want to fight in Viet Nam." Their willing hosts clucked in satisfaction. One interviewer applauded them for choosing "a path of courage." Pravda praised "their brave decision, dictated by human conscience...