Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pasternak, Billington feels, seems to have the solid support of all significant Russian authors. Very few of them signed a petition to expel Pasternak from the Writers Union and there has been much criticism levelled at the leader of the Soviet Youth Congress who had stated that "calling Pasternak a pig slanders...
Billington also cited "the malaise of Soviet youth." In Russia, he said, there seems to be an inability to handle the new generation. In fact, the Youth Congress has termed adolescents in Russia "bugs and beetles who must be blotted out by insect exterminant...
...mysterious thing," Poggioli commented, "that it is virtually impossible to continue writing avant-garde literature. under a totalitarian regine." The reason for this, Poggioli said, is that any literature written under such a regime must reflect a reversion to tradition, and, "since the tradition upheld under the Soviet regime is cheap, Zhivago represents a search for something else...
...United States should find itself in such a position that all other alternatives were closed, save a world war with the Soviet Union OR surrender to the Soviet Union, would you favor 215 war; 82 surrender...
...feel that religious beliefs are among the central issues in the conflict between the Soviet sphere and the "West...