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...dearth of talent but too much party censorship. Most of them agree with Russian Poet Andrei Voznesensky that the people now want, and are ready for, "the naked truth, and not truth concealed beneath the fig leaf of censorship." Last week two critics were rebuked for writing in Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Communist Youth League newspaper, that Soviet theater censors seem to find anathema every play that offers "a serious answer to the serious problems of life...
...less a person than Vladimir Ilyich Lenin once said: "Socialism without post office, telegraph and machines is an empty phrase." So is socialism without love, according to a letter from Citizen Y. Alyansky of Leningrad printed in Pravda last week. Alyansky decided at 11 o'clock one evening to send a message of love to a girl friend by night letter. He dialed 06, the special Leningrad number for sending telegrams. When the operator insisted on knowing the nature of the telegram before he dictated it, he said in some embarrassment: "You see, it is an expression of love...
...much-discussed poll taken in the Soviet Union in 1961 by the official newspaper of the youth organization, Komsomolskaya Pravda, 96.7 percent of those returning questionnaires indicated that they had a personal goal in life. Only 14.9 percent, however, said that they wished to become "real communists." Most were concerned with their own personal development--with becoming a specialist, "with achieving something outstanding," and the like. Concern for the development of the individual personality, and with freedom of thought so as to find the "truth" showed up quite clearly in this survey...
...newspapers would face ruin if they lost circulation the way leading Soviet dailies did last year. Izvestia, the government paper, was down 300,000 (to 7,500,000). Komsomolskaya Pravda, the journal of the Communist youth, was down 500,000 (to 6,300,000). Pravda, the official party mouthpiece, suffered the most spectacular drop of all; it was down 1,000,000 copies (to 6,000,000). But oddly enough, the decline is a healthy sign of sorts...
...Mostly, the competitive pressure is causing the papers to shed some of their drabness. Headlines are boxed in color, the number of pictures has increased, the quality of newsprint and typography has improved. Political puritanism and pre-publication censorship still keep the mass-circulation national papers, such as Pravda and Izvestia, from carrying stories about sex and murder, though such crimes are now sometimes reported in the local press...