Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comes the thaw, and the index of once prohibited films has become an honor roll. Enforced neglect has turned their directors into celebrities, legendary fighters in the film resistance. Frumin, who immigrated to the U.S. after The Errors of Youth, a bleak road movie, was shelved a decade ago, returned to Leningrad last year to finish editing the film. Elem Klimov, a tenacious renegade whose own films (the historical drama Agony, the peasant- revolt parable Farewell) have been censored and suppressed, is the union's first secretary, unlocking vaults and disarming the Goskino octopus. For the first time, a filmmaker...
...lights come up at the House of Composers after a screening of The Puppy, director Alexander Grishin's new film about a young defender of perestroika who loses his battle to expose corruption. At least one viewer is disturbed by a final scene showing the body of the youth floating in factory waste water. "Why can't the film have a positive ending?" asks the decorated war veteran. "Everything is so negative today." He is interrupted by hoots of protest from the audience...
...kids knew whom to thank for the lighter touch. One of the new bands, a Moscow-based group called Grand Prix, introduced a song last year called simply Gorbachev. The haunting chorus ("I understand! Gorbachev!") is less a tribute to the man in power than a defiant youth anthem, undoubtedly the first to use a Soviet leader as an emblem of teenage aspirations...
Unless Soviet youth grow up with computers, the country will be at an increasing disadvantage in the global technological race. The U.S.S.R. must rapidly automate and computerize its industry if it is to increase productivity and manufacture goods that can compete in the world market. And without exportable products, the Soviet economy will never earn the hard currency it needs to finance modernization and growth...
...drove to Uvarovo, the village of my youth that had since turned into a decent-sized city of some 50,000. I discovered that the second secretary of the city party committee was Vladimir Selyugin, an old childhood friend. When I last saw Volodya, he had been working as an agrotechnical engineer. Why had he suddenly turned up on the committee? He told me that he was tired of Uvarovo being run by transients. He had grown up here, worked here and had no intention of going anywhere else...