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After years of jamming, Russians are now allowed to hear the BBC, Radio Liberty and other Western radio stations without interference. The youth newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda has taken to giving teen-agers advice on such formerly taboo subjects as "How short should a miniskirt be?" The socialist answer: Every girl should decide for herself, depending upon the attractiveness of her legs and the chilliness of the weather. Public-opinion polls, which were long banned, have suddenly become a craze. One question not being asked: Do you approve of the job that Premier Kosygin and his colleagues are doing...
...language, Voznesensky replied in verse: "They nag me about formalism./Formaldehyde: you stink of it and incense." He helped to stir up the Soviet Writers Congress last May by signing a letter boldly calling for an end to Soviet censorship. Last week copies of a Voznesensky letter to Pravda and one of his latest poems reached the West. They made it plain that their author is still spitting...
...ridiculous ruse moved the poet to write to Pravda on the day after he had been scheduled to appear in New York: "Why do they pull the wool over everyone's eyes by saying variously that I am ill, that I waited until it was too late before I asked for a ticket, or (now that everyone knows that it's too late to get to the poetry reading) that I'm just about to leave? Of course, the leaders of the Union of Writers must know what they are doing, but why haven't they...
Dangerous Defiance. Pravda did not print the letter, and Voznesensky did not cool off. A few days later, at a poetry reading in a Moscow theater, he expanded his indictment to take in all the boorishness in Soviet culture that was epitomized by Khrushchev's shoe banging...
...subject." They deplored the habit of cultural commissars' dropping casually in on rehearsals of a new play and then later banning its opening, criticized the censors' prim hostility to such themes as religion. Frightened by the uproar the article caused among the young Communists, Komsomolskaya Pravda last week ran an editorial condemning not only the two critics but also its own editors for spreading "gross ideological error...