INDICATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL VULNERABILITIES

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SUMMARY
The Oporgian SSR Komsomol Congress is told that the Republic's youths are still
bac rd and tainted with religious belief and prejudices. The Russification of
the young people, it is intimated, is proceeding far too slowly. Other items on
Party activities continue to harp on the evil of suppressing criticism "from
below" (snizu) and the general avoidance of highly controversial issues.
Criticized also is the failure to teach and study Marxism-Leninism as it should be,
that is, as the determining factor of all Soviet economic activities.
In agriculture the spring sowing and plowing campaign still claims much of the
regional radio and press attention. There is implicit and explicit admiesion of
great sugar-beet losses in the Ukraine and elsewhere occasioned by the beet weevil
(bUrakovy dolgonosik). Past negligence in the maintenance of technical equipment
is said to be making itself felt now, at the height of spring field work. An in-
crease in the frequency of agricultural statute Violations is reported from several
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Georgian Komsomol Amon z Most Backward: By far the most revealing broadcast on Party
life and activities is Party Secretary Mgeladzets speech before the 19th Komsomol
Congress of Georgian SSR (May 17). His sharp criticism of the Georgian Party itself
last April, as discussed in a previous CPW report, was mild by comparison. Indeed it
appears, according to the Secretary, that the Georgian Komsomol has outdone its Party
mentors in commiting corrupt and other un-Bolshevik activities. Stalin himself is
said to have looked into the Georgian Party activities and found "deficiencies in
them...Which threatenea to have serious consequences." The list of Komsomol short-
cpmings, as recited by Mgeladze, include practically every sin in the Communist bible,
from immoral acts to church weddings and insufficient interest in mountain climbing.
The Georgian Komsomol is said to have deteriorated to such an extent that radical
measures to improve its organizational and internal work are now in order: Such steps,
however, are not to the liking of many Georgian Komsomol leaders who "it must be
said outright...are losing their taste for this aspect of the work, or else they never
had any taste for it." The danger inherent in such lack of vigilance and political
blindness, as Mgeladze puts it, has already made itself felt, as many unscrupulous
people managed to maneuver themselves into positions of confidence and "filtered into
positions of authority." The Secretary does not name any of the untrustworthy
Komsomol officials but it-may be inferred from his repeated references to their
various fields of activities that they are too numerous to be listed.
The apathetic attitude of the Komsomol rank-and-file members toward their "honorable
duties" in general is seen in Mgeladzets assertion that in most of the organizations,
particularly in the primary, ones, "it is considered a great achievement when a quorum
is assembled" for a general meeting. Although the oft-criticized Party practice of
frequently and unnecessarily reshuffling Communist personnel does not apply to the
Georgian Komsomol, the latter is said to be no less errant in its tendencies to the
other extreme, that it keeping officials at the same post too long:
There is no need for officially establishing how long
this or that worker must be secretary of rayon, town or
oblast Komsomol Committee, or the Central Committee of the
Komsomol, but people should not be kept on the same jobs too
long. This leads to some of them getting used to shortcomings
in work, creates an atmosphere of familiarity of which they
sometimes are not conscious.
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Russian version:
Ne sleduyet offitsialno ustanavlivat skolko let tot
iii inoy rabochiy dolzhen byt sekretarem raykoma,
gorkoma Ui tseka kamsomola. No vse zhe tak dolgo derzhat
ludey na odnoy i toy the rabote no sleduyet. Eto
sposobstvuyet tomu, chto nekotorie iz nikh privykayut k
ne(lostatkam v rabote, sozdayut obstanovku panibratstva,
prichem inoy raz saint etogo ne zamechayut.
It is revealed, in this connection, that many Komsomol officials, from the Central
Committee down, have been entrenched in their leading posts for 118, 100 and even 16
years" thereby preventing the promotion of "deserving" young Communists to posts of
leadership.
The lack of proper political education within the Komsomol school network is referred
to as disgraceful. Only 98,000 out of the 350,000 Georgian Komsomols are said to be
attending school, and the quality of instruction is so poor that "there can be no
justification" for it. Pointing to the unqualified instructor-propagandists as the
source of widespread ignorance among the young Communists, Mgeladze quotes two so-called
political educators to prove his point. The instructor of a political study group in
Mayakavsky Rayon told his students in the course of a lecture that
At the time of foreign intervention and. Civil War in
Russia, the EMperor of Germany, Wilhelm the Second,
ordered the Polish troops under the command of
Gen.Wrangel to invade the Soviet Ukraine.
Another lecturer, a deputy Komsomol Committee secretary in Tbilisi, declared in a
talk to her Party audience that "the Vatican is a Korean Minister." Such examples of
political ignorance0 says the Secretary, are "impossible to surpass," and they are
doing more harm than good to the Party.
Among the other objectionable features characterizing my Georgian Komsomols are
"amorality. .various crimes, drunkenness, hooliganism." Mgeladze identifies amorality
with the "survival of capitalism" in the consciousness of the young Communists. Church
weddings, another sign of political "demoralization", are said to be rather frequent
among Komsompls0 even among officials on the secretary level. Religious belief, in
fact, is said to be assuming preposterous proportions. A girl Komsomol is quoted as
having declared that
Russian version:
"God willed that I am to have an operation of the
appendix. The Lord be praisedl" But whom should
this God's patient praise for having been elected
secretary of the Komsomol organization?
"Bog velel mne sozdat operatsiu.slepoy kishki.
Khvala emur NO kogy zhe eta patsientka boga dolzhna
vozdat khvalu za to, chto ona okazalas izbrannoy
sekretarem komsomolskoy organizatsii?
Mgeladze is particularly sarcastic about the performance of the school Komsomol
organizations whose duty it is to encourage better studies and keep the children's
morale high. How much those school children are influenced by their Communist mentors
Is seen from his reference to the actual situation:
Superstition and religious prejudices are rife among some
school chi,Idren. For example, in some school in Tbilisi a
chain letter is being circulated purporting to bring luck
to those who make nine copies of it and send them out.
...Others to go church and pray to God for help in their
studies. It must be assumed that those students who Waste
their time going to church get non-passing marks in class and
stay for the second year2 with God's help!
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Russian versidn:
Sredi chastei shkolnikov rasprostraneni suyeverie,
religioznie predrazsudki. Izvestno? naprimer, chto v shko-
lakh Tbilisi khodit po rukam tak-nazyvayemoye (yetoye)
pismo, prinosiashcheye yakoby schastye tem, kto ego
perepishet devyat raz i rozdast vo vse storony.
...drugie idut v tserkov i molyat boga o pomoshchi v
svoikh uchenicheskikh delakh. Nado polagat, chto eto kak
raz te ucheniki i uchenitsy kotorie tratyat vremia vmesto
ucheby ma khozhdenie v tserkov, poluchayut dvoiki i osta-
yutsya, s bozhyey pamoshchyu, ma vtoroy god.
The Russification of the Georgian youth, although not referred to by that term, is
said to be progressing much too slowly., and drastic measures are urged to improve the
situation. The importance ot the Russian language is apparently not realized iv the
appropriate Party and Komsomol organizations. That is said to be evident from the
selection of Russian instructors many of whom are not even conversant with the
language as they should be:
It is necessary to know the Russian language as well
as ones mother tongue... It is high time for us to
take the matter of Russian instruction in hand and thereby
insure fluency in the spoken and written tongue upon
graduation fram secondary schools.
Russian version:
Russkiy yazyk sleduyet znat tak zhe khorosho, kak
i svoy rodnoy yazsyk...Davno uzh pora krepko vzyatsya
za dela prepodavania russkogo yazayka I dobitsya, chtoby
pot okondhaniu kursa sredney shkoly uchashchiysya mog
svobodno govorit, chitat i pisat po-russki.
(Of some significance, in this connection, is the fact that the principal speech at
this Komsomol Congress was made in Russian rather than in Georgian.)
Physical training and heavy and light athletics have been grossly neglected in Georgia,
according to the Secretary, and in a number of rayons discontinued altogether. The
large figures of physical trainees referred to by Communist officials are "taken from
thin air...and exist only on paper." Actually, in such rayons as Kachretskiy, Zugdidi,
Chkhorotskuskiy, Abashskiy? Tsalendzhinskiy, Akhmetskiy, Tskhakayevskiy, and others
there are "hardly any" sports activities at all. Although Georgia is famous for its
great alpinists, the situation in mountain-climbing competitions(Alpiniady) to have
deteriorated as a mass sports activity. In Tevibuli, for example, the only sports
premises have been converted into a wine cellar: "Is it not a disgrace (bezobrazie)1"
Violation of labor discipline, absenteeism (proguly) and a careless attitude toward
machinery and other equipment are declared to be frequent among Komsomol workers who
account for 50 to 6o percent of the industrial engineering and labor force. Such
Komsomol behavior is all the more nefarious in view of its duties as a Junior partner
of the Party to combat all sorts of infringements of the Socialist labor law:
Russian version:
Georgian Kamsamol organizations must give effective help to
the Party organizations in eliminating the lag in industry,
agriculture, transport, and trade, and in the fight against
such crimes as bribery, embezzlement. of State funds,
misappropriation of Socialist property, peculation and ?
speculation.
Komsomolskie organizatsii Gruzii dolzhny okazat
deystvennuyu pamoshch partiynym organizatsiam v likvida-
tsii otstavania v oblasti promyshlennosti, selskogo kho
zaistva, transportal torgovli i v borbe s takivi prestu-
pleniami? kelt' vzyatochnichestvo, kaznokradstvo khishchenie
sotsialisticheskoy sobstvennosti, rastrata i spekulyatsia.
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PARTY ACTIVITIES
Fairly heavy publicity is given to the 30th anniversary of the Soviet Pioneers
Organization (slay l9). Here, too, the occasion is used to point out the familiar
shortcoming in the youngsters' activities under the overall supervision of the Komsomol.
Most of the regional comment, however, is favorable and the topic os treated along
conventional lines. STALINGRADSKAYA PRAVDA (May 18), reiterating that the most
important duty of e Pioneer is to "study well and maintain strict school discipline,"
admits that this is not evident in the oblast organizations. The Komsomol Committees,
it is claimed, have relaxed their supervision over the Pioneers* activities to such an
extent that the situation has become "absolutely intolerable." The academic progress
of the children has been slow, Pioneer meetings are seldom held, and the school
teachers do not get ranch assistance from the future Communists.
Most of the other broadcasts on Party Life are diffuse in character and cover the
usual vide range of topics. Inadequate attention to political education on the part of
Komsomols and non-partisan youth continues to be the object ef official criticism. A
Kinzhebayev article carried by 1EN1NSKAIA SNA (May 8) pleads for the immediate
elimination of the grave shortcomings in Kazakhstan *s political schools. The Komsomol
Committees, it is claimed, behave as if they have lost-all interest in the propagandists
and political advisers whose qqalifications have dropped below the required standard.
The quality of political studies has deteriorated, and the whole educational setup
is now characterized by a low ideological and theoretical level. STALINGRADSKAYA
PRAVDA (ray 15) asserts that the shortage of teachers, particularly qualified
Russian-language teachers, is too serious to be left unattended. The training of
teacherecadres is said to be so poor that many of the? graduating instructors are not
up to their job of conducting classes. The paper urges that more Kazakh women be
trained for teaching jobs in order to relieve the present shortage.
The Party, says ZARIA VOSTOK& (May 13)2 has entrusted its helper, the Komsomol with the
task of educating the Soviet youth but this does not lessen its responsibility for the
education of the Komsomols themselves. It is in fact revealed that the Party organiza-
tions "often forget" (chest? zabyvayut) that the education of young Communists is
important, and do not "regard it their duty" to supervise their educational activities.
All the tried ways and means of propaganda and mass political work must be employed,
says the paper, to educate the Komsomols "in the spirit of aggressive political
vigilance" Cy dukhe nastoychivoy politicheskoy bditelnosti). A larger dose of
Marxism-Leninism fo- krai college students is suggested by STAVROPOLSKAIA PRAVDA
(May 13)s Moreover, the paper demands that "science" should not be taught as an
abstraction but as an integral part of "the most important tasks of Communist
construction." The paper complains that many lectures at the higher educational
institutfeda do not show "Leninism in action" and fail to stress the "creative
character" of the Marxist-Leninist theory. Such shortcomings are said to apply to the
colleges of Stavropol and Pyatigorsk where college instruction and political seminars
are carried out in a "formal manner" and the most important aspects of the Marxist-
Leninist theory "do not receive the necessary elucidation" (ne poluchayut
neobkhodimogo razyasnenia).
Intra-Party democracy is in jeopardy, according to ZARYA VOSTOKA (May 8) as long?as
"nearsighted and clumsy" people who put their personal interests above those of the
State and Party are placed in leading positions. It is suggested that the distribution
and placements of leading cadres in the Republic be looked into since the tendency of
many present officials to "let things drift" is inimicable to the interests of the
State. What is needed, says the paper, is a corps of young vigorous officials
determined to "get things done." There is no specific reference to names and places,
but the tenor of the editorial suggests that the object of the paper's attention is
the Georgian Republic as a whole.
Soviet "solicitude" for the equal status of the women among the Asiatic nationals is
emphasized in a KOMSOMDLSKAYA PRAVDA article by the Central Committee Secretary of
Kazakhstan's Komsomol (Nay 13). Planned and forced marriage, says she, are vigorously
opposed by the Soviet government, and the organizers of such marriages are dealt with
by the State prosecutors. The case is cited of e collective farmer who "decided" to
marry a 16-year old school girl. The marriage would have been consummated regardless
of the girl's wishes had not the school Komsomol organization learned about it and come
to the student's rescue, The frustrated farmer is quoted as saying that the Soviet
school is too strong to be challenged--due to the ideas of the Bolshevik Party. This
incident, the article concludes, is characteristic of the ?burning intolerance" of the
Kazakh _Komsomols of any attempt to restore the morals of old.
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The continued disregard of "criticism from below" (kritika snizu) is again the object
of PRAVDAls editorial criticism (Nay 13). This paper, it will be recalled, initiated
the campaign for mere criticism from below and more attention to it from above some
time ago, and has since dealt with the subject at frequent intervals. This time it is
the so-called polished lommunists (lakirovannie kommunisty) who are said to stand in
the way of honest criticism from the ranks. In Bashkirian ASSR, for example, criticism
is not only disregarded but the critics frequently lose their jobs and are even
persecuted. Danger signals, as the paper puts it, are heard also from Penza Oblast,
Baku City, and other places where criticism of Party officials may involve certain
risks. The local press is called upon to come to the aid of the good Party men by
giving them more space for criticism and by looking into their complaints in a "more
serious and profound manner." A number of regional newspapers are said to be reluctant
to deal with too much criticism, and as a rule confine themselvee to "skimming the
surface" (skolzit' po poverkhnosti) of controversial discussions.
AGRICULTURE
Official attention is still concentrated on the current sowing campaign, and, wherever
the spring sowing has already been completed, the stress is on proper crop maintenance.
Arcollective letter to Stalin from agricultural workers of the Kirghizian SSR makes
passing reference to the Republicts indebtedness to the State, that is, plan failure in
regard to the production of cotton, sugar cane, wool, and milk. Admissions of various
agricultural failings are hears from a number of regional sources, most of them in
context of the current sowing and crop maintenance campaign.
A progress report on the ablest field work issued by the Stalingrad Agricultural
Administration (May 7) intimates that the collective farm performance so far shows
anything but progress. The following rayons are reported to have failed to sow
wheat, mustard, and sunflower "on thousands of hectares:" Tetkachevakiy, Zhdanovskiy,
Kletskiy, Frolovskiy? Kalachevskiy, Uryupinskiy, Budarinskiyo,Xachesheriskiy, Rudnyanskiy,
Logovskiy, Kaganovicheskiy, Voroshilovskiy, Balykleyevskiy, mad others. At least five
other rayons managed to sow "insignificant areas" as compared with the acreage specified
in the plan, while the sowing of fodder crops, perennial grasses, beets, and others is
said to be "most unsatisfactory" in most of the oblast rayons. The same applies also
to vegetables and melons, according to the report.
KAZAUSTANSKAYA PRAVDA (May 8) is critical of the "impertissibly slow sowing tempo"
In North Kazakhstan, Pavlodar and East Kazakhstan oblasts and delays in the sawing
campaign inAktyubinsk Oblast. Such an intolerable attitude toward spring field work,
says the paper, if continued, will lead to E total crop failure. Many machine units
are said to be working only one shift per day, and the situation is still further
aggravated by the lack of trailing equipment and the large-scale idleness of tractors
due to the faulty distribution of fuel supplies and seeds. Most of the agricultural
shortcomings in North Kazakhstan and Kustanai oblasts are said to stem from the
inadequate handling and maintenance of machinery. KURSKAYA PRAVDA (May 8) bemoans the
"extremely valuable" time that is allowed to pass without any concrete agricultural
achievements. The source of trouble is traced to the inefficiency of the machine-
tractor stations and their reluctance to "adopt progressive methods" of work. This
point, however, is not amplified.
PRAVDA (May 12) reviews the current agricultural situation and finds that a number of
oblasts and larger geographical areas are still lagging behind the expected performance
and need more prodding. Idleness of tractors, says the paper, is only one of the
contributim4 factors. What is far worse is the collusion between machine-tractor
stations and collective farms to cheat the State: "Frequently machine-tractor stations
and kolkhozes do not Observe their contractual Obligations and conceal each otherts
poor quality work" (Neredko mashino-traktornie stantsii i kolkhozy ne soblyudayut
dogovornikh obyazatelstv, dopuskayut vzaimnoye u)ryvatelstvo nedebrokachestvennoy
raboty . Kaluga Oblast "has not developed the necessary tempos" (ne nabrala nuzhnykh
tempov) and is far behind its neighboring oblasts and the plan. 2he agricultural
performance of Kursk and Ore. oblasts is not much better. The poor repair job done on
the farm machinery in those places is not making itself felt; tractors are either idle
or laid up for additional repairs at the height of the agricultural season. The spring
sowing in tlar central black-soil areas (tsentralno-chernozemnie rayony), the Volga
area, Siberia and Kazakhstan also calls for a "radical improvement" (rezkoye uluchshenie)?
according to the editorial. The only way to achieve that, it is suggested, institute
a two-shift day and to check the daily performance of every individual machine and
tractor driver.
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In areas -where the spring sowing has already been completed the propaganda pressure is
now applied to proper crop maintenance which, like many other aspects of agriculture,
is said to be inconsistent and lacking uniformity in many dblasts. STAVROPOLSKAYA
PRAMA (gay 8), for example, reveals that weeding has been neglected in many of the
rayons: "It must be admitted that the kolkhoz and agricultural organizations are not
paying sufficient attention to this most important condition for a good harvest."
The inadeenate fight against agricultural pests, particnlarly the sugar-beet weevil
(dolgonisik), is said to have caused great beet losses, according to several regional
transmitters; A broadcast from Sumy (May 11) recalls the Ukrainian Communist earty
strictures about the widespread irresponsible attitue- toward the fight against the
weevil and discloses that "great losses of sugar beets" have already been noted in Kiev,
Poltava, Vinnitsa, and Kirovograd ?blasts. On May 13, RADYAZISKAUERAINIA refers to its
previous issue devoted to agricultural pest extermination, and adds that the criminal
neglect shown in this connection "is the sole cause of the partial and complete
deStruction of ougar-beet plantations." It is also revealed, incidentally, that a
number of agricultural leaders, having failed to save the beet crop from destruction,
"hide the fact and do not resow the plantations." The main editorial criticism,
however, is directed against the "numerous instances of failure" to exterminate the
weevil and take proper care of the crops in general: "good sowing is not all there
is to be done, it is only the beginning of the struggle..."
Violations of "agricultural principles" in Kirovograd Oblast have become so widespread,
that according to a broadcast of May 16, the Oblast Party Committee instructed the
chief prosecutor to investigate every case and "to bring the guilty parties to criminal
udic71.a1orespon8ibility." The decision taken in this connection by the Party notes
that soteParty and agricultural officials "deserve being expelled from the Communist
Party" for srbmitting fictitious documents do signed to cover their failure to combat
the sugar.-beet weEvil. Other officials are said to "deserve being handed over to the
judiciary for criminal action" but in consideration of their recantation and promises
to do better in the future the Party "is satisfied with giving them a severe admonition"
with an appropriate notation on their individual cards. The mentioned Party decision
goes on to warn all rayon Party secretaries, Executive Committee chairman, machine-
tractor station directors And other agricultural officials that crop maintenance ana
pest extermination are priority targets ana continued infringements of agrotechnical
rules P-"11 involve severe penalties. KURSKAYA PRAVDA observes (May 18) that a number
of the oblaetts agricultural organizations "are repeating the mistakes of last year"
in connection with tending sown areas. Maae weeding in the fields has not been
organized, plowing teams have not been selected, and, what is worse, no pest-prevention
measures have yet been taken.
Agriculturalestatnte violations, unreported for some time, are again referred to in a
number of broadcasts, ZARYA VOSTOKA (May 10) has reference to Georgian SSR as a whole
when it, declares that
....despite the serious warning of the Party and the
State concerning the need to eradicate violations of
agricultural artel statutes...control over the strict
observance of the statute aas become more lax.
Denouncing the evil practice of "showing a conciliatory attitude" toward statute
violators, the editorial insists that such individuals and their abettors should be made '4
to "bear the flail weight of Soviet law" (nesti na sebe vsyu tyazhest sovetskogo
zakona). One method of combating or even preventing agricultural statute violations,
according to the paper, is the "training and retraining" of collective farm accountants
and bookkeepers.
ZVYAZDA (May 15) takes issue with the LYlorussian Ministry of Agriculture and certain
unnamed Party officials for their "incorrect attitude" towards workers' letter. Many
agricultural workers, says the paper, are complaining to the Ministry and individual
officials about instances of agricultural statute violations, but their warnings are
left unheeded. The editorial mentions the May First Collective Farm as a case in point.
The chairman of that farm has been "disposing of communal property according to his awn
ideas, sometimes for the benefit of individuals and greedy elements." The local Party
Cormnittee, however, never reacted to the workers letters reporting the mentioned
violations.
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Defining the illegal disposition of kolkhoz property as the "gravest violation of the
agricultural statute", MOLOT admits editorially (May 16) that "examples of criminal
pdlferage and squandering" of kolkhoz property are still noted in some rayons of the
oblast. Neklinovskiy, Kagalnitskiy, Orlovskiy, and other rayons are referred to as
the worst of the lot. Implicit reference to the gravity of the situation is contained
in the papers assertion that some of the officials charged with the enforcement of
the agricultural charter were themselves found violating it:
...Party and Soviet organs of some rayons are not only
not undertaking determined measures to stop such
criminal acts, but are also frequently defending the
malicious violators...protecting them from responsibility
and punishment.
MISCELLANEOUS
_RussianLe"aaVerboten": In a talk to the home audience on May 13, Sychev refers
to the loyalty checks in U.S. as a "fixed-idea cult" (kult navyazchivykh idgy). The
suppression of progressive ideas is said to have reached such monstrous proportions
that any manifestation of independent thinking may bring reprisals. Thus a State
Department employee was dismissed from his job because "he knew a professor who knew
someone who read progressive literature". Another government employee "is being
persecuted just because he studied the Russian language" (podvergnut goneniu potamu
tolko, chto on izuchayet russkiy yazyk).
E2.11E1232.1n2.;pe News: A broadcast from Baku to the Near and middle East quotes an appeal
by the Moslem head of European Russia and Siberia to the "honorable Moslems of the
globe," Quoting the Koran on living in peace, the Mufti calls upon the "seekers after
peace" to dbey the will of the Almighty and fight against the aggressive schemes of
the American kindlers of a new world var. (May 17)
A TABS transmission to Europe (May 18) quotes Prof. Katayev as declaring that the high
vacuum kinescope and iconoscope were originated in the USSR. Even color television,
according to the professor, is closely asdociated with Soviet research, and is no
longer a scientific problem since the idea of obtaining any color by various
combinations of the elementary blue, yellow, and red was "clearly expressed by the
great Russian scientist Lomonosov."
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