INDICATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL VULNERABILITIES

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The Cporgian SSR Komsomol Congress is told that the Republic 's youths are still
backward and tainted with religious belief and prejudices. The Russification
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 admission oil
great sugar-beet losses in the Ukraine and elsewhere occasioned by the beet Weevil
(burakovy dolgonoelk). 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
sources.
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GEORGIAN KOMSOMOL CONGRESS.
PARTY ACTIVITIES
AGRICULTURE 5
MISCELLANEOUS... 7
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Georgian Komsomol Among Most Backward: By far the most revealing broadcast on Party
life and activities is Party Secretary Mgeladze's 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 threatened to have serious consequences" The list of Komsomol short-
cpmings, as recited by Mgeladze, include practically every sin in the Communist bible,
from tumoral acts to churph 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 Mgeladze's assertion that in most of the organizations,
particIllgl-ly 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 ralochiy dolzhen byt sekretarem raykama,
gorkoma iii tseka komsomola. No vse zhe tak dolgo derzhat
ludey ma odnoy i:toy zhe rabote no sleduyet. Eto
sposobstvuyet tomu, chto nekotorie is nikh privykayut k
ner'ostatIolum v rabote, sozdayut obstanavku panibratstva,
prichem inoy raz sami 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 "8, 10, 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
Mayakovsky 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 ignorance, says the Secretary, are "impossible to surpass," and they are
doing more harm than good to the Party.
Among the other objectionable features characterizing many 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 Komsomols, 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
"God willed that I am to have an operation of the
appendix. The Lord be praised!" But whom should
this God's patient praise for having been elected
secretary of the Komsomol organization?
Russian version:
"Bog velei mne sozdat operatsiu slepoy kishki.
Khvala emu!" No komy she eta patsientka boga dolzhna
vozdat khvalu zato, chto ona okazalas izbrannoy
sekretarem komsomolskoy organizatsii?
Mgeladze is particularly sureaatiC 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 children. 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 year, with God's help!
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Sredi chastei shkolnikov rasprostraneni suyeverie,
religioznie predrazsudki. Izvestno, naprimer, chto v shko-
lakh Tbilisi khodit po rukam tak-nazyvayemoye (yetoYe)
piemo, prinosiashcheye yakoby schastye tem, kto ego
perepishet devyat raz I rozdast vo vse storony.
...drugie idut v tserkcv i molyat boga o aomoshchi v
svoikh uchenicheskikh delakh. Ned? polagat, chto eto kak
raz te ucheniki i uchenitcy kotorie tratyat vremia vmesto
ucheby na khozhdenie v tserkov, poluchayut dvoiki i osta-
yutsya, s bozhyey pomoshchyu, na vtoroy god.
The RussifiCation of the Georirian 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 of the Russian language is apparently not realized Var 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:
Russian version:
It is necessary to know the Russian language as well
as one's 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 from secondary schools.
Russkiy yazyk sleduyet znat tak zhe khorosho, kak
svoy rodnoy yazsyk...Davno azh pora krepko vzyatsya
za delo prepodavania russkogo yazayka I dobitsya, chtoby
po okonchaniu 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,
Chkhorotskuakly, 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 Tcvibuli, 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 (progular) 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:
Georgian Komsomol 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.
Russian version:
Kamsomolskie organizatsii Gruzif dolzhny okazat
deystvennnyu pomoshch partiynym organizatsiam v likVida-
tsii otstavania v oblasti promyshlennosti, selskogo kho-
zaistva, transporta, torgovli i v borbe s takimi prestu-
pleniami, Irak vmyatochnichestvo, kaznokradstvo khishchenie
sotsialisticheskoy sobstvennosti, rastrata i spekulyatsia.
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PARTY ACTIVITIES
Fairly heavy publicit;- is given to the 30th anniversary of the Soviet Pioneers
Organization 0Aay 19). Here, too, the occasion is used to point out the familiar
shortcoming in the youngsters t activities under the overall supervision of the Komsomol.
Most of the regional comment, however, is favorable rnd the topic os treated along
conventional lines. STAI,INGRADSKAYA PRAVDA (May 18), reiterating that the most
important duty of a Pioneer is to "study well and mair-ain strict school discipline,"
admits that this is not evident in the oblast organ -cations. The Komsomol Committees,
it is claimed, have relaxed their supervision over ..he Pioneers' activities to such an
extent that the situation has become "absolutely intolerable." The academic progress
of the children has been slow, PSoneer meetings are seldom held, and the school
teachers do not get much assistance from the future Communists.
Most of the other broadcasts on Party Life are diffuse in character and cover the
usual wide range of topics. Inadeouate attention to political education on the part of
Komsomois and non-partisan youth continues to be the object of official criticism. A
Kinzhebayev article carried by LEMIUSKAYA SMENA (May pleads for the immediate
elimination of the grave shortcomings in Kazakhstanls political schools. The Komsomol
Committees, it is claimed, behave as if they have lost Ll 'interest in the propagandists
and political advisers whose qualifications 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 (May 15) asserts that the shortage of teachers, Particularly qualified
Russian-language teachers, is too serious to be left unattended. The training of
teachers' cadres i3 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 ZARYA VOSTOKA (May 13), 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 Xommomola themselves. It is in fact revealed that the Party organiza-
tions "often forget" (chasto zabyvayut) that the education of' young Communists is
important, and do not "regard it their duty" to supervise their educational activities.
Al). 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" Or dUkhe nastoychivoy politicheskoy bditelnesti). A larger dose of
Marxism-Leninism fo- krai college students is suggested by ISTAVROPOLSKAYA ERMA
(May 13). 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
institutIddli do not show "Leninism in action" and fail to Stress the "creative
character" of the Marxist-Leninist theory. Such shortcemings 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 poluohayut
neobkhodimogo razyasnenia).
Intra-Party democracy is in jeopardy, according to ZARYA'VOSTOKA (zMay 8) as longsas
"nearsighted and clumsy" people who put their personal interests above those of the
State and Party are placed in leading positions. It ie. 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 KOMSOMOLSKAYA ERMA article by the Central Committee Secretary of
Kazakhstan's Komsomol (May 13). Planned and forced marriage, says she, are vigorously
opposed by the Soviet government, and the orgenizers 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 ofithe Bolshevik Party. This
incident, the article concludes, is characteristic Of the l'burning intolerance" of the
Kazakh Komsamoli of any httempt to restore the morals of old.
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The continued disregard of "criticism from below" (krttika snizu) is again the object
of PRAVDA's editorial criticism (May 13). This paler, it will ht recelled, initiated
the campaign for nore criticism from below and more attention to it i_om above same
time ago, and has since dealt with the subject at frequent intervals. This time it is
the so-called polished r!ommunista (lakirovannie kommunisty) who are said to stand In
the way of honest criticism from the ranks, In Bashkirian ASI, 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 Pewee. Oblast,
Bake City, and other places where criticism of Party officials may invola_: certain
risks. The local press is called upon to came to the aid of thc good Party men by
gevena 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 themselves 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 saving has already been completed, the stress is an proper crop maintenance.
A collective letter to Stalin from agricultural workers of the Kirghizian SSR makes
passing reference to the RepUblic's indebtedness to me State, that is, plan failure in
regard to the prouction of cotton, sugar cane, wool, and milk. Adndssions of various
agricultural failings are heare from a number of regional sources, most of them in
context of the current sawing and crop maintenance campaign.
A progress report on the oblast field work issued by the Stalingrad Agricultural
Administration (Nay 7) intimates that the collective farm performance so far shows
anything but progress. The following rayons are reported to have failed to saw
wheat, mustard, and sunflower "on thousands of hectares" vetkachevakiy, Zhdanovskiy,
Kletskiy: Frolovskly, Kelachevskiy, Uryupinskiy, Budarinskiy,Nacheshanskiy, Rudnyanskiy,
Logovskiya Kaaanovicheskiy, Voroshilovskiy, Belykleyevskiy, and 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.
KAZAKESTANSKAIA PRAVDA (May 8) is critical of the "impermissibly slow sowing tempo"
in North Kazakhstan, Pavlodee and East Kazakhstan oblasts and delays in the sawing
campaign in Aktyubinsk .)blast. , Such an intolerable attitude toward spring field work,
says the paper, if continued, will lead to s 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 Kastanai 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 oi 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
contributiae factors. What is far worse is the collusion between machine-tractor
statioes and collective farms to cheat the State: "Frequently machine-tractor stations
anu kolkhozes do not observe their contractual obligations and conceal each other's
poor quality work" (Neredko machino-traktornie stantsii i kolkhosy ne soblyudayut
dogovornikh obyazatelstv, dopuskayut Vzaimnoye ukryvatelstvo nedrhrokachestvennoy
raboty). Kaluga ?bleat "has not developed the necessary tempos" Cm nabrala nuZhnykh
tempov) and is far behind its neighboring oblasts and the plan. Zhe agricultural
performance of Kursk and Orel 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 thr central black-soil areas (tsentralno-chernozemnie rayony)0 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 1-;he apring zowing has already -oeen completed the propaganda pressure is
new applied to proper crop maintenance which, like many other aspects of agriculture,
iS said. to be inconsistent and lacking uniformity in many oblaste. STAVROPOLSEAZA
PT-tviDA 0May 6), for example, reveals that weeding has been neglected in many of the
rayons: "It must be adnitted that the kolkhoz and agricultural organizatione are not
paying sufficient attention to this most important condition for a good harvest.
The inadelnate fieht against age-icultural pests, particularly the sugar-beet weevil
(dolgonisik), is ,;aid tc have caused greet beet losses, according to several regional
transmitters A broadcast from Sumy (May 11) recalls the Ukrainian Communist e y
-t-,trictures about widespres,d. irresponsible attit1t,3- toward the fight against the
weevil and aiecloeee that "ereat losses of sugar beets" have already been noted in Kiev,
Poltava: Vine-dee:a, and Ktrovogead oblasts. On May 13, EADMISKA UKRAINIA refers to its
previous iseee devoted te agricultural pest extermination, ana adds that the criminal
neglect shown f!.-2 this connec%ion "is the sole cause of the partial and. complete
cletitractim of suar-beet plantations." It is also revealed, incidentally, that a
number of agrieultural leaders, having failed to save the beet crop from destruction,
"hide the fact an. do not resow the plantations." The main editorial criticise,
however, is directed aeainst the "numerous instances of failure" to exterminate the
weevil and eak.c preper care of the crops in eeneral: "good sewing is not all there
iS to be done: it is only the beginning of the struggle..."
Violations of "aip-icultural principles" in Kirovograd Oblast have become so widespread,
that according to a broadcast of May 16, the Oblast Party Committee instructed the
chief pronecutor to inveet.inate every case and "to bring the guilty parties to criminal
indicine.reeponeility." The decision taken in this connection by the Party notes
that some Parte and agricultural officials "'serve 'being expelled from the Communist
Party" ..eor 4-5ehitting fleeitious documents eieeened to cover their failure to combat
the snenr-'neet l.iee rii, :eeer officials are 3aia to "deserve being handed over to the
junieiney for exeminal nction" but in consideration of their recantation and promises
de bctte:c in the fetere the Party "Is satisfied. with giving them a severe admonition"
with an appropriate notation on their individual cards. The mentioned Party decision
floes on to warn all ruyon Party secretaries, Executive Committee chairman, machint,:-.
TA!aetor station directors and other agricultural officials that crop mainterance and.
Pest extermination are priority targets and continued infringements of agrotechnieal
rules --11 involve severe penalties. KURSKAYA PRAVDA observes (May 18) that a number
of the eble.ette agrieeltural organizations "are repeating the mistakes of last year"
,-_oarteetio?:, -vitt tC.11.a.?.11C ,3 GSM areas. Mass weeding in the fields has not been
Organized, ple9eng teams have not been selected, and, what is worse, no pest-prevention
measures hLi.vc yet been taken.
AeTienituralaeatete einieteens, unreported for some time, are again referred
number of broadcaeten ZARIA -VOSTOK& (May 10) has reference to Georgian SSR as
when it declares that
...despite the serious warning of the Party and the
State concernieg the need to eradicate violations of
:.31.e.1.31teeral artel statutes. .control over the strict
observance of the statute nas become more lax.
in a
a whole
Denouncing the evil practice of "showing a conciliatory attitude" toward statute
Violators, the editorial insists that such individuals and their abettors should be made
to "bear the full weight of Soviet law" (nesti na sebe vsyu tyazhest sovetskogo
zakorta). One method of combating or even preventing agricultural statute violations,
accordinj to the paper, is the "training and retraining" of collective farm accountants
and (v)okkeepers.
L7..VYAZDA (1.4 1..;;) takes issue with the LYlorissian Ministry of Agriculture and certain
,Unnamed Part;;, officials for their "incorrect attitude" towards workers' letter. Many
agricultural workers, says the paper, are complaining to the Ministry and indlLvidual
offieiad.s 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.
glihe chairman of that farm has been "disposing of communal property according to his own.
sametittes for the benefit of individuals and greedy elements." The local Party
!Committee, however, never reacted to the workers letters reporting the mentioned
?%/1.0lations.
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-Defining the illegal disposition of kolkhoz property as the "gravest violation of the
-agridultural statute", MOLOT admits editorially (May 16) that "examples of criminfll
Pilferage and souandering" of kolkhoz property are still noted in same rayons of the
oblast. Neklinovskiy, Kagalnitskiy, Orlovskiy, and atfier rayons are referred to as
. the worst of the lot. Implicit reference to the gravy of the situation is contained
in the paper's 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 step Such
criminal acts', but are also frequently defending the
malicious violators.. .protecting them from responsibility
and punishment.
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-Russian 1.2......"12Lb_o_ten":: In a talk to the home a ience on May 13, Sychev refers
to the loyalty checks in U.S. as a "fixed-idea cult" (kult navyazchivykhidgy.). The
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suppression of Progressive ideas is said to have reached such monstrous proportions
that any manifestation of independent thinking may brit greprisals. Thus -a State
)Department employee was dismissed from his job because "he knew a professor who knew
sameone who read Progressive literature". Another government employee "is being
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persecuted just because he Studied the Russian language7 (podvergnut ganeniu potamu
tolko, chto an izuchayet rupskiy yazyk).
-Religion in the News: A broadcast from Baku to the Near and middle East quotes an appeal
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by the Moslem head of European Russia and Siberia to the -"honorable Moslems of the
globe.0 Quoting the Koran on living in peace, the Mufti calls upon the "seekers after
peaee" to obey the will of the Almighty and fight against the aggressive 'schemes of
the American kindlers of a new world war. (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 asbociated 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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