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Last week, using India (see below) as as object lesson, Radio Moscow demonstrated how it's done. Said one aerial pundit: "American monopolists . . . conceal . . . far-reaching plans for ousting British capital [and] opening the way to India's enslavement. . . ." Said Evgeny Zhukov: Indian leaders feared U.S. "encroachment" and chose continuing ties with Britain as "the lesser of two evils...
Love Thy Boss. From Moscow came a different kind of critique. In the Soviet magazine Culture & Life, Pravda Correspondent Yuri Zhukov tore into Hollywood with a party-line vengeance. The U.S. movie monopolies, declared the article indignantly, had actually abandoned the profit motive in order to reel off anti-Communist propaganda. Wrote Zhukov: "Hollywood films advertise American capitalists as noble, wealthy persons who should be imitated and obeyed. . . . They propagate patience and obedience on the part of submissive girl workers, showing finally how they win the love of their bosses or his son. . . . Crimes are incited by 'dangerous Reds...
This was a bizarrely distorted montage of the facts. Hollywood handles trade unions with kid gloves, if at all, has scarcely mentioned Communism since the screamingly pro-Russian Mission to Moscow. Even more obviously false was Zhukov's statement that "the stink of race prejudice is smelled miles away. . . . While 100% Americans are always brave and noble heroes, Negroes are either imbeciles . . . or wild beasts inspiring the hatred of the audience. . . ." Actually, Hollywood (though it is inclined to show Negroes as rather simple) has not presented a violently villainous Negro since The Birth of a Nation...
...pictures of which Zhukov approves: The Best Years of Our Lives and Tobacco Road ("a progressive film about the plight of the American farmer...
...Molotov has long been Stalin's chief administrative assistant, and with Beria in the next top post, the new Government can hope for the full support of the secret police. As for the Army, the other force on which the Kremlin has to reckon, the new marshals like Zhukov, who might have Bonapartist ambitions, are suspect. Voroshilov and Budenny, as old party warhorses, are politically much more reliable...