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...Moscow, Pravda front-paged an editorial scolding the Communist Party, trade unions and youth organizations for shirking their duty of stamping out God. Children, Pravda complained, are especially vulnerable to these dangerous doctrines. The Literary Gazette complained that farmers in the province of Kirov had recently been allowed to abandon their fields for a three-day religious festival that was "only an excuse for drinking." And the trade-union paper, Trud, demanded that the government close down a spring near Moscow that has been attracting thousands (including even some Soviet bigwigs) to its "healing waters...
...fellow students. Later, as a lecturer at the University of Rostov, he keeps tabs on his faculty colleagues. Chafing with ambition, Feodor trumps up some party-line history on the ancient Slavs, and plants the article before propaganda bigwigs in Moscow. It wins him six columns in Pravda, a full professorship at 30 and his toughest party assignment...
Moscow Hint. The Russians did not let the debate die. Pravda quoted Premier Malenkov as promising that the Kremlin would "treat favorably" any West German approach. Dr. Dehler, boss of the Free Democrats, spoke up again last week: "Direct diplomatic relations between West Germany and the Soviet Union are absolutely necessary." A third party in Adenauer's coalition, the German Party, chimed in, demanding "full freedom of action" for Germany...
Last week Pravda for the first time published all the top leaders' names in alphabetical order. Malenkov's no longer led; he was down in the M's with Molotov. Defense Minister Bulganin came first. Malenkov might resent being in the middle, but could take consolation in the fact that in the Russian alphabet, the English KH is written as X, making his chief rival, Khrushchev, last on the list...
...mixture of discontent, of listless workers, of idle and broken machinery, of incoherent direction, demanded action in Moscow. One day last month Pravda's lead article criticized the slowness of the Kazakhstan sowing and warned that the authorities on the scene would not be allowed to hide behind poor weather as an alibi. Nikita Khrushchev himself found it necessary to rush east to meet with the Kazakh Communist Party and discuss "at length" the problems of the virgin lands...