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Mamonova, a painter and poet, last year conceived and edited the first Soviet feminist journal, "Women and Russia." Despite her forced exile from the USSR last July, she hopes to continue writing about Soviet feminist issues for a Soviet audience...
There is also a great disparity between laws protecting women and the extent to which they are carried out, she said, adding that although prostitution, wife-abuse, rape, and job discrimination are real problems in the USSR, "officially" they do not exist...
...People's Republic, Lynn says, "doesn't want to reconcile relations with the Soviet Union." Most Chinese, she observes, believe that "life in the USSR is really hard and their government makes people's life even harder. We hear that people don't get enough food, except for the privileged class." But she adds, "I don't know if it's true...
...Jewish religion in the USSR is a dying religion," Powell said, attributing its decline to a general secularization of all religions in most parts of the world and to the Soviet government's hostile treatment of Jews...
Powell added that Jews in the USSR lack the organization and political power needed to counter the government's hostility...