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...societies too are, by all accounts, not especially attentive to "human costs of rapid growth" such as described. The predisposition might also reflect a concern for other "human costs" as well, human costs represented by, for example, the incarceration of millions of persons in penal labor camps in the USSR under the five year plans, and by similar experiences in other communist countries; human costs about which former inmates (Solzhenitsen, Ginzburg, Lobl) have told us vividly enough, if we only wish to know of them: human costs, too, such as those evidenced by the continued harsh suppression of free speech...
...Soviet Union--Oleg Soklolov, "USSR and Europe;" Emerson Hall 105. No admission charge...
...that his work was serving an end that he personally felt to be important, then it would not be necessary to create the special kind of worker mentality that our schools presently turn out. Alienation appears to be a feature of capitalist industrialism (or in the case of the USSR, statecapitalist industrialism) rather than of industrialism in general. We should not accept such things as fixed...
...President Johnson has refused to sell the Phantoms despite mounting pressure from Israel. Two weeks ago the Israeli newspaper Maariv claimed that the USSR had promised about 200 planes, including bombers, and an unspecified number of tanks to Cairo and that delivery was imminent. The newspaper also urged President Johnson to deliver the Phantoms...
...Soviet Union has always subcribed, in theory, to the concept of rule by committee--Presidiums, Politburos, etc. In the past the theory has broken down and power in the USSR has always seemed to devolve to one man--possibly this happened because the needs of material development were the most pressing ones at the time. Today, however, the Soviet Union is governed in a partnership, an uneasy but still functioning one, between the Party (in Brezhnev) and the government (in Premier Kosygin). This fusion of the legislature (the Communist Party plays the role of a legislature in the Soviet Union...