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Chernenko was born on Sept. 24, 1911, to a family of Russian peasants in the central Siberian village of Bolshaya Tes. In his youth he signed up with the Komsomol, or Young Communist League, the usual first step for people who want to become members of the Communist Party. In 1931 he joined the party, and a decade later became a local secretary. Chernenko is one of the few Soviet leaders of his generation who do not seem to have fought in World War II. He spent most of the war years in Moscow attending the Higher Party School...
...Chernenko challenge: westward-looking, apolitical youth...
...country's only independent peace organization. Besides seeking to exchange ideas with like-minded Americans, the defendant reportedly had been teaching the works of banned authors like Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The sentence: one year in prison and five of internal exile. The trial went virtually unnoticed by Soviet youth...
Those are two glimpses of the world of young people in the Soviet Union, one as telling as the other. They can rock 'n' roll with happy abandon, but they do not demand the climate of freedom that spawned the Western youth culture in the first place. Their lack of interest in politics was evident last week in the absence of young faces in the procession to bid farewell to Yuri Andropov. "What goes on in the leadership is remote from our lives," said Volodya, 26, an engineer. "Besides, nobody asks our opinion...
...island where the Amazons, under the benevolent Queen Foraday (Uzal S.H. Taylor) and the evil Witch Wayzup (Jon Isham), have lived for 20 years completely free of men--though some of them are nostalgic for "the feel of a man around... and the sex!". When their sustaining Fountain of Youth breaks down, though, the Witch tells them they can only fix it by bringing back men, which, in turn, can only be achieved by pushing the beautiful Princess Kitty Litter (Robert Coburn) into a volcano...