Word: young
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...gloom of a hospital ward, an injured man contemplating his future, a young soldier's face on a tombstone: all part of the aftermath of a war the Soviets started in 1979 and abandoned last February, when the last of Moscow's troops rolled out of Afghanistan. The Kremlin's misadventure not only cost the lives of some 15,000 Soviet soldiers and left 35,000 injured but also marked the first time the U.S.S.R. had ever been defeated in war. As illustrated by these photographs, mostly taken at a military hospital outside Moscow, the agony of Afghanistan goes...
...reforms are faring outside Moscow, a TIME correspondent and a Soviet journalist traveled together to Tambov, about 260 miles southeast of the capital. Setting down their impressions side by side, the two found far more had changed than they expected and discovered a cadre of young Gorbachevs ready to carry out reform, despite the difficulties...
Here was a new generation of 30- and 40-year-olds who went unnoticed in the capital: young Gorbachevs from the provinces who had survived the Brezhnev years with some of their ideals intact. They certainly bridled at being cast as backwater party bureaucrats...
...young man speaks rapidly, but every syllable reverberates. More than 30 other men and women seated in a large, drab room at a Moscow community center listen quietly. Over the next hour and a half, most of them, giving only their first names, will stand under the bare fluorescent lighting and make the same confession. It is a painful admission to make anywhere, but especially in the Soviet Union, where drinking is legendary and individual accountability has decayed. This is the daily meeting of Moscow Beginners, the first antidrinking group for Soviet citizens that is registered with Alcoholics Anonymous...
...called Moscow Personals. Kon's own textbook, An Introduction to Sexology, became available in the Soviet Union last year, more than a decade after it was first published in Eastern Europe. Already half a million copies of the Soviet edition are in print. An explicit sex manual, Advice to Young Couples, is a best seller at bookstalls...