INDICATIONS OF DOMESTIC DIFFICULTIES

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COUNTRY USSR
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SUBJECT thdicationns of Domestic. Difficulties
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PRAVDA continues to complain about the slow mec niza Lion of industry and agriculture
and about i adequate di ss irmation of the experience of Innovators and of advanced work
methods. It also stresses the poor uxtilizatlon of now machinery, and the resulting
large.-scale use of manual. labor, The I July editorial does not single out any
particular plant but speaks of the technical departments of the ministries in general.
The teshnica1 d Earetments of the ministries still apply
inadequately then , me thoide of work which have been evolved
a fence And adra treed e perience 000 A number of enterprises
ap r c the study and application of xtakhanovite experience
as a temporary campaign., Having taken 1e first steps, they stop
short, atiafied w th what they have do t
The 1.4 Tuly editorial citee' the ?9 y First' works of the Ministry of Agricultural Machine
Building Industry as one of the plants where new machinery is not working at full
capacity.
The main cause of the lagging behind of the "May First"
works is had utilization of the highly productive equipment 0 A
' of their production, make a long journey wi`tnin `Tine works .nu
return two or three tines to the same lathe0 .
labor is being used an a large scale. Spare parts, in the process
ck rd. technology is being applied in the. works, and manual
wt ion standard is also said to be weak in the Donets coal
17 dupes Itio losses to the state,"
d_ o ; :~~?ti . n it a' t e d spoils ge of goods are attributed to the various organizations
under the Minsist'r ed of Building Materials and Fishing Industries (6 July) R Poor
production' quality is also admitted, ,nd deplored, in a letter to Stalin f ?om the
industry and t nspo'rt workers of Mos' w City and Oblast (15 July). The Lipetsk Radiator
Works, Sukremlensky Foundry and Kharkov Steel Platte Works are accused of delivering
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defective goods to the construction sites despite the fact that the Ministry of Building
Materials had already been rebuked for lagging behind the growing requirements of the
enterprises are reminded of the large production losses sustained last year duesto_the
low quality of the products, and are told that their performance has not been greatly
improved;
In several enterprises of the Volga-Caspian Trust, for
instance, there were cases of fish being allowed to spoil,
and of the production of poor-quality prod- ee (6 July )
Strict observance of Partr and state di and the proper selection of qualified
cadres are suggested as-the best remedy for ,ch mismanagement in industry.
The Orel and South Kazakhstan Oblast Party committees are also subjected to sharp
editorial criticism for dereliction of duty, particularly in the matter of Party and
state discipline and the selection of qualified cadres., or in other words, the
appointment of the wrong people to' the wrong posts, The Orel Oblast Party and
Executive committees are said to have failed in their executive training program.
The case of the South Kazakhstan Oblast authorities-restraining criticism of short-
comings--is considered as each more serious.
When the oblast newspaper PRAVDA 5 ZHNOCO KA -AJ T A criticized
the incorrect methods of work.of one of the secretaries of the
district coiittee,, the secretary of the Oblast Party Committee,.
Yevrepesov, summoned the editor of the newspaper and warned the
newspaper not to dare criticize the local ,executive workers. (4 July)
Fake reports, nepotism and a variety of illegal activities on the part of plant
managers are mentioned in the PRAVDA editorial of 4 July, As a warning to the unnamed
executives who may still be speculating in raw materials or otherwise violating the
economic regulations as defined by the verrdment, the editorial cites the ;case of
Kiev factory director Sostyants who was recently relieved of his duties and expelled
from the Party I
..,because he hid the amount of surplus me tee from the organs of
state accountings allowed exaggerations in th, report on
production, carried out illegal speculative machinations with
raw materials,,,surrounded himself with *yes menneo and introduced
nepotism in the factory,.
The two PRAVDA editorials (8 and 9 July) devoted to the A~ i.a?t a celebrations
emphasize both the strength of the Soviet Air Force and its peaceful pursuits. The
might of the Soviet Air Force is repeatedly referred to in such passages as "the best
air force in the world;,' "first rate air force" and "first rate planes," Thin
applause is also extended to the peaceful exploits of the air forced
in respect to-., the use of aircraft in the national economy,..
The Soviet Unlon. occupies the first place In the world
the Soviet people exploit their aviation to a great extent
for peaceful constructions ?at the great construction sites
of Communism.... (8 July)
Apart from the familiar glorification of the Soviet Air Force and its performance in
the last war, PRAVDA also claims undisputed Soviet leadership in aeronautical science ,
in general-
,,,by their discoveries and.invention.s (the Soviet scientists)
have shown mankind the way of development of aviation.
Stalixn& s falcons (Stalinnekie sokolip an affectionate
reference to Soviet pilots) a,..1 having the.,ppor^t of the
beat aviation scienceq have begun to fly farther,. faster
and higher than anyone, (8 July)
The Ministry of Higher o and the Academy of e ces of the USSR are reminded
in so many words that: a the training of young scientists is unsatisfactory, and
b) science and politics are inseparable. This reminder is directed to the scientific
institutes of the Tatar ,. . Uzbek, Lithuanian and Armenian Republics where insufficient
attention is paid to the selection of qualified scientific directors for the trainees.
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The latter, as a result, are left very much to their own devices., often committing such
ideological errors as bourgeois, objectivism.
The Scientific Council of the Institute of History of the
Soviet Academy of Sciences accepted the doctor's thesis of
Kinderfarbe on the social philosophy of-Charles Fourier and
its place in the history of socialist thought", On closer
study of this work it was found that it had been written
from the position of bourgeois objectivism, (10 July)
The higher institutions of leaning are mace more
uncritical spirit., simplification and vulgarization..
Serious flaws in the development of xiew xaower sources are dealt with in the PRAVDA
editorial of 12 July, which asserts that this branch of industry is lagging behind
the terms set by the plan. Inadequate socialist competition among the power workers
and insufficient attention to technological improvement and stakhanovite work methods
are given as some of the reasons. Another;; is the familiar lack of supervision on
The flurry precipitated by the unsigned PRAVDA article (2 July, not broadcast) exposing
nationalist tendencies in Ukrainian art and literature reveals that Sosyura"s poem,
"Love the Ukraine" (Lyubi Ukrainu&), was merely a convenient peg on which to hang a
blanket accusation of the Ukrainian Union of Soviet Writers,, As indicated previously,
,the first hint of deviations in Ukrainian literature was contained in the PRAVDA
editorial of 15 June, which stated bluntly that the modern industrial Ukraine was
badly depicted in the novels, stories and plays of today.
The significance of the recent PRAVDA outbursts against the Ukrainian intelligentsia
may be seen in the vast inflow of material from every part of the Ukraine approving
the papers justified criticism? Also significant is the resolution adopted by the
Central Committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party (Home Service,. 13 July) saying
that., the PRAVDA criticism "is recognized as justified and well-timed Bolshevik
criticism of the serious defects and. mistakes in the field of ideological work in
the Ukraine,"
The first admission of guilt comes from BOLSHEVITSKOYE ZNAMYA (Odessa, 6 July) which
blames the oblast Party organizations for their failure in the political and
ideological education of the intelligentsia, and points to the weak spots in the work
of the Odessa section of the Union of. Soviet Writers;
The absence of true criticism and self-criticism among the
writers as well as inadequate self-demand are sometimes
conducive.to over-praising works of art which are very wear
from an ideological and artistic point of view* (Russian
version: otsutstvie nastoyaschei kritiki i samo kritiki sredi
pisatelei I siabaya trebovatelnost privodit k tomu, chto
inogda zakhvalivayutsia proizvedenia sovershenno slabie v
ideinom i khudozhestvennorn otnosheniL)
The R 'A editorial of 7 July said that Sosyua?a"s poem was so bad from a
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Point, of view that it might have been signed by "any enemy of the Ukrainian people
from the nationalist camp" but;, like all the other papers, it made no reference to
the contents of the poem, Another instance of what might be interpreted as Ukrainian
nationalism is the opera "Bogdan Khmelnitsky" which, according to PRAVDA, "tolerates
deviation from historical truth," (Bogdan Khmelnitsky was a Ukrainian-nationalist
leader who led the revolt against Poland for Ukrainian independence in the middle
of the 19th century,)
RADYANSKA UKRAINA is the most vociferous of the leading Ukrainian papers in its
criticism and self-criticism.
related to ideological blunders in Ukrainian literature,
In addition to charging all the Communist editors and publishers with "an atrophy of
political awareness," the paper criticizes itself, as well as PRAVDA UKRAINY, for
having failed to criticize t ideologically harmful verse of Sosyara"s "Love the
Ukraine!" The paper even goes so far as to hint that the Central Committee of the
Ukrainian Communist Party, its publisher, is. not entirely blameless in this respect:
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This paper (RADYANSKA UKRAINA) failed to assist the Central
Committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party in exposing in
time the ideological perversions in literature and art...
and the verse (Sosy.ra's poem) was frequently published.
(Kiev, 13 July)
The belated Ukrainian press attack has now also been extended to the works of Rylsky,
Pervomaisky and Voskrykatenko, whose poem "Oh, Ukraine, My Native Land!" is said to
be particularly offensive since it digresses "from the true visage of the socialist
reality of the Soviet Ukraine....devoid of ideas and bereft of the feeling of Soviet
patriotism.,'
Other Ukrainian press comment:
RADYANSKE SLOVO, Drogobych, 11 July:
A.' serious situation also exists in the work of our
Oblast press, especially that of RADYANSKE SLOVO. The
editorial staff has omitted the critical article of
the Moscow PRAVDA.
PRAVDA UKRA.INY, Kiev, 10 July:
It is indispensable...to root out to the end any
manifestations of bourgeois nationalism and all signs
of bourgeois ideology.
KIROVOGRAUSKAYA PRAVDA,, 13 July:
The oblast cinema service is criticized for bad
work ...one library is attacked for recommending to
its readers books with old and bourgeois ideas.
From Stalino, 11 July:
.Bolshevik criticism by the paper PRAVDA
concerning the serious shortcomings and mistakes
of ideological work in the Ukraine apply fully
to the Stalino Oblast Party organization,
From Rovno, 12 July:
,..Shortcomings in Party political and ideological
education in the Ukraine, especially among the
intelligentsia ...also cropped up in the work of
the Rovno Town Ccfunist organization.
Criticism of Azerbaijani literature, recently discovered to be blundering ideologically,
is comparatively mild, the only reference to it appears in the PRAVDA editorial of
7 July which credits the Central Committee of the Azerbaijan Communist Party with
uncovering the sins of the Writers Associations and. taking appropriate measures to
raise the ideological level of literature.
Shortcomings
Agriccul ure; The Stalingrad and Rostov oblasts, frequently referred to as slow-progress'
industrial areas, come in for some official criticism of their agricultural efforts by
STALINGRA)SKAYA PRAVDA which lists four rayons in which the performance of workers and
machinery in the farm fields far below the mark. In Perelazovsky Rayon harvesting
equipment is said to be lying idle through lack of lubricants. Leaders of
Kotelnikovaky rayon pay little attention to the organization of harvest work, and
much time is wasted in Balikieieky Rayon in removing the grain. Serious shortcomings
are also said to exist the Dubovka Rayon where neither personnel nor equipment
ha '..been properly 'organized for the harvesting campaign, and, what is worse, where
political work has'been badly organized.
The paper particularly deplores the inefficient utilization of combine harvesters,
whose average daily' productivity never exceeds 10 hectares, and suggests that poor
organization may be the cause:
It is essential to change this abnormal situation and to insure
that every combine harvester work according to an hourly schedule
(because) shortcomings are often caused by the bad organization of
field work.: (3 July)
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The Rostov MOLOO assails, agricultural officials of the Romanovsky Rayon, where thousands
of poods of unoleaned .grain are lying in heaps and where deliveries to the State are not
made., Rayon P z ty secretary K a.rochkln,:. who visited those places, is sev4rely
reprimanded for not 'repns ing the disgraceful affair and for not doing
about
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it a The Martynova3kX,. tepnov Za
reminded of the. r' l:ar a yr padnyo Egorlyka3ky and Mechetinsk rayons are
failure to do y g e atities of . grain they have accumulated and of- their
aytrlag abotut daliver.ng ,the grain to the State. (5 July)
RADYANSKA UKRAINA specks of the diadainfui and oriaznixaaal&a attitude on the part of
the Cteaiichevsky- Rayon leader a (Khg f Oblast) toward the utilization of machines:
"Eleven combines are , still. not in~ In some rayons of Odessa Oblast all
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combines and machines, aa'e, ndt:used to fall capacity., and some combines, are idle
for lone periods_ (7 7ul
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A KAZAK$STAISKAYA PRAVDA editorial calls'attention to the especially alarming situation
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construct an avow barns i gg, behind Oven more, Six
thousand building workers are necessary" to fulfill the
plano .. only (one) thousand . are employed, (7 July)
A letter to Stalin from the agticu.ltural workers of the Tatar ASSR reveals that the
Republic as a whole is behind plan 'in both harvesting and stockbreeding:
We cannot forget that our Republic is still seriously
behindhaand n agri cult re pa ?ticul arly .as regards the
harvest yield oaf' crops and the -productivity of Communal
stockbreeding....;
Among other lolities reporting agricultural shortcomings are Creel (low milk production)..
Bryansls. (ifadequate ' repairs of sorting machines
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are idle through lack of ,service p sohnel), Kiev (low harvest
of the
Polesye ko1khozes ).. Voroehilov yields ou most
Odessa d (,tre~aely low combine and tractor output),;
(great -l:ossesg. slow a a mechanization and idle machinery) and Dnepropetrovsk
(inefficient utIl i o7,j;+ R o n of ~ h
eery)
housing; The St a2
cad Ob st also leads the others in poor housing construction,
and STALINCRAi?SKAYA JPR ~A notes that the, situation is serially alarming*.
;s farming The main
housing construction 'trusts of the. oblast (Staali yq Glavstali.ngradstray and
Zhilaatro ~~dstro
y), says the paper, still: lag behind their production plans from month to
month, and some of them. nett only. fail to raise the tempo of work - they even lower it.
Kirovsky Rayon, where eo ieariy all the-buildings which have been put into operation
have recaz unsatiafaucs
eived tor
appraisal,, a, is cited as the worst example with the
warning that "this situation . cezmot be. tolerated any longer...."
According to, RAD(CHIY PST (Srolen k...1l July) , there is an element of sabotage involved
in the lagging housing. coast ction of.,the 'Oblast4 Charging that the construction of
communal housing is far, b ind schedule, the paper asserts that the Smolensk City
Construction Assembly,Adaaainistrat.ion, . the Repair onstruction Bureau and the
(Utyaginsky) . Construction Trust are . ssytematically - dis pting the fulfillment of the
program; The machinery . on many constr uctioh sites i s standing idle, says the paper
because of the lack of.e erieneed. worker4 ; and '
~ pex?3enced workers are lacking
because of the poor organization of labor and technical training,
SoVIErAXAN HAYASDAN'comnlai-aa that
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but it does not name. any. of the orgaanizatio
(Yerevan d 1-61 y xss nor their location in Armenia
Party ctiyitii
A warning that the Kazakh Republican Komsomol organization must mend its ideological
ways is' sounded by KCICIvIOLSKAYA PRAVDA on 10 July, the day the Kazkhstan ;Komsomol
convened for its fifth conference, Taking its cue from this warning, KAZAKHSTANSKAYA
PRAVDA criticizes the Central Committee of the Kazakh Komsomol organization for
"remaining aloof from the solution of the urgent problems of ideological work among
the youth," and reminds it that not a single. lecture for young workers has been
prepared by the lecture section of` the Central Committee this year. A poor
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lecturing. organization., however, is not usually a grave enough misdemeanor to can for
the censure of the Central Komsomol Committee. The actual reason behind the paper's
attack may be inferred from its suggested remedy:
The}somol committees mist mobilize their forces in the
strug le against the bourgeois nationalist distortions
in questions dealing with the history of Kazakhstan
which were revealed in PRAVDA. (14 July)
Science and Invention.
Medicine.- Among the new medicines reported to have been produced by the All-Union
Qrdjonikidze) Scientific and Research Chemical and Pharmaceutical Institute are
Fenagon and Feratizin0 The first is used to reduce pain in cases of kidney colics,
internal ulcers, neurelgiap and also. after operations.? The other, a vegetable
alkaloid, is intended to reduce high blood pressure. Both remedies are now being
produced on a large scale. (in Russian, 4 July)
The Bordenko Prize for successful experiments which may lead to the solution of the
longevity problem has been awarded to scientist Denikhov who successfully transplanted
a second heart into the thorax of a dog, (in.English, 2 July)
One of the new Soviet-developed methods of treating hypertension and injuries to the
central nervous system, according to Abrosov, is the introduction of a branal
compound into the organic Pith the aid of direct current. (TASS, 4 duly)
The sleep care method, credited to Pavlov, is now said to be applied successfully in
cases of stomach and duodenal ulcers as well as during child birth. (Home Service,
5 July)
AvJ&t3S'a: Reiterating the familiar Soviet claim to every invention in aeronautical
science, including the science itself, Academician Yuriev lists as the present
outstanding Soviet airplane designers Polikarpov9 Petliakov, Il .shin, Yakovlev and
Lavoehkin. Designer Tupolev, whose planes usually bear his initials TU, is not
mentioned. (Home service.,, 6July)
The Satellite radios are sparing in their discussions of internal affairs and
stereotyped, although somewhat more vehementp in their attacks on Yugoslavia. The
anniversary of the death of Georgi Dimitrov occasions Satellite-Belgrade exchanges
in which each side claims him as its friend. There are charges and counter-charges
concerning treatment of minority groups land there are increasing Satellite
references to resistance within Y'ugoslavi Q Belgrade, on the other hand, reports
'internal problems in broadcasts to the various Satellite countries.
an - erss v of IDimitrovt s Death
Radio Moscow makes only passing reference to Yugoslavia in comment on the death
anniversary and merely says that he "undressed the criminal designs of the American
imperialists and of their Titoite lackeys against the Bulgarian nation.,.." (25 June
but nowhere is there any mention of the reportedly cordial Tito-Dimitrov relationship
Accusing the USSR of murdering Dimitrov, Belgrade claims that he approved Tito's
stand against Caminform controls
Later Dimitrov....supported the point of view of the
Yugoslav Communist Party (against the Cominform
resolution) and declared to Comrade Djilas in the
presence of another member of the Bulgarian
Communist Party. 'Stand firmIll (in Bulgarian,
18 June) Georgi Dimitrov was eliminated lest in the
course of time he opposes the hegemonistic policy of
the Soviet rulers. ... Since 1949, 13 members of
the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Workers Party,
mostly Georgi Dirnitrov' a close associates, have been
removed. (2 July)
The Bulgarian .OTECI TVEN FRONT rejects Yugoslavia's claim to Dimitrov's friendship:
In their dirty attempts they (the Titoites) invented lies...
about an allegedly benevolent attitude of Dimitrov toward
the Titoites, It is well known that Dimitrov... took a
clear stand toward the betrayal of the Titoites.
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NAPPM's reference to the dispute over Dimitrov's attitude is phrased to suggest that the
matterhas long been settled and is therefore not even subject to discussion.
With unheard of cynicism the Titoites represent
themselves as the alleged friends and followers of
Dimitrov Q.. The Titoites, Dimitrov's enemies during
his life? cannot be his friends after his death. (2 July)
Bucharest comment on domestic affairs is fragmentary. There is practically no material
dealing with industrial progress., and the only reference to agriculture is contained
in a SCANTEIA editorial which alludes to collectivization setbacks and blames the
class enemy for unspecified failures
There are...both State and collective farms which
Such
not set a good example to the other farmers.... Seucnts
practices must stop because millions of working peasants
match the collective farms eagerly awaiting to see what
results they achieved and to decide, influenced by these
results, ? whether they should join collective farms
themselves.. (4 July)
From Belgrade comes the report that
,,,in Rumania,.the Soviet government had not contributed
its statutory share of capital to the Soviet-Rumanian Oil
company (Sovrom), 50 percent., out of its own means, but
used German assets in nia,. . In other words, the
Russians used property which the Germans had stolen
from Rumanian (20 June)
Bulearia
The Sofia radio stresses the brilliant achievements of the Bulgarian economy, which are
said to be due to generous Soviet aid,, but confines itself to generalities in the
brief references to domestic affairs. It admits that afforestation and erosion
control are in an extremely poor state, and that two high officials in the Ministry
of Forests were summarily dismissed, one of.them being prosecuted, for dereliction
of :duty.
The Budapest radio complains of excessive drifting of manpower and lack of discipline
mong Hungarian workers, particularly in the building and mining industries, and
admits that,Soviet methods of recruiting manpower are being employed, Although the
Party, trade unionorganizations and management are officially blamed for not
taking care of the situation, the real reason appears to be the attitude of the
workers themselves. "These drifting workersa.,,are also inclined,.,to neglect
their machines and to show insufficient enthusiasm in the fight for happier days,"
(15 June)
Pursuing the manpower theme, SZABAD".-,F= belabors the producers' groups and
cooperatives, especially the larger ones, for their unwillingness to work more than
and says that an 8-hour work day in agriculture during the
eight hours a is
summer season is utter nonsensea Apart from that, the oduetion of an eight hour
day in cooperative farming is even theoretically impossible:
Lately one can observe strange symptoms in more than just a
few producers' groups and producers' cooperatives,
especially in the larger ones ....there is something very
much wrong with these workers,..only the open and secret
enemies of progress and the cooperative movement ...can
entertain such designs (as the eight-hour working day).
The paper accordingly urges cooperative and Party le d persI;to hilosla launch of a idlers merciless
campaign against the harmful, hostile demagogy and (2 ruly)n
order that they shall be completely liquidated as soon as possible."
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Belgrade reports that.a Party purge has been in progress;
For some time past a purge has been going on. in Hungary
affecting both higher ranking State and Party officials
as well as`many.ordinary citizens.
.,,.at the last conress of the Hungarian Workers Party
one third .of
the leadership...during the past two months which
elapsed since the Congress two members of the
Politburo have vanished. 25.June)
The organizers' of the purge must be looked for outside;
in the N.Ka.V D apparatus which keeps non-Muscovites
only as long. as their Influence does not exceed the
permissible..a (26 June)
Czecboslovaki$t
Speaking on the sixth anniversary of Czechoslovakiats liberation, Communist Party boss
Slansky pays tribute t4 the USSR s contribution to practically every phase of
Czechoslovakia's devel?'ptttent, and says that the Soviet Union "presents Czechoslt pia
This
with a. model on which,.the country can shape its internal structure."
amplified in Slansky's reference to. a subversive gang of spies and traitors within the
Commmist Party and to: the latterl s treatment of them;
The importance of this fact (Cc unist education of the masses)
has been; "realized by all the Czechoslovak Co mmunists,
particularly, naw~that a dangerous,. subversive gang of spies
and traitors bas: been discovered in the ranks of the Party,
headed by Sling,,.. Svermova and Cletaentis.
The Czechoslovaks. Communists learn from the experience of the
Bolshevik.Party how to carry out an Inexorable struggle
for principles'against even the slightest deviation from
the Party line fo (6 July)
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On the completion of`elementary school and high school,
all Czechoslovak.pupils and undergraduates Est know
RRussiana
The resolution (of the Czechoslovak Communist Party) also
provides that in the studies on history Masaryk and Banes
are to be expo# as-reactionaries. (28 June)
Pow
The Yugoslav radio reminds Polish audiences of :the one-sided nature of Soviet-Polish
friendship:
Polish-Soviet Friendship Societies existed in Poland?
but they did not exist in. t 1w-Soviet Union.. Constant
lectures and addresses 4bout the Soviet Union were
given.i Poland, but no equivalent addresses about
Poland.Vere heard in the Soviet Union, The Russian
language was taught in Poland# but was Polish taught
in the USSR? (5 July) .
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