POLITICAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600230516-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 516
• Publication Date: June 9, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CEPn riAL INTELL TAGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
REPORT
CD No.
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COUNTRY
SUBJECT
HOW
PUBLISHED
USSR
Political
Daily newspaper
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1949
DATE DIST.7Jun 1949
WHERE
PUBLISHED
DATE
PUBLISHED
Khabarovsk
17, 26 Apr 191+9
NO. OF PAGES 2
LANGUAGE
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SOURCE ;'ikhookean a Zvezda.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
JEWISH AO WRITERS ACCUSED
51-P COSMOPOLITANISM
EHABAROVSE, JEWISH AO WRITERS ACCUSED -- Tikhuokeanskaya Zvezda, No y0, 17
Apr 49
A city-wide conference of Ehabarovek inteL1igenteia was held recently
to diec'ae the drive against cosmopolitanism. The critic Aluf was censured
for his erroneous reviews of literature of the Far East. The newspaper
Eirotfdzhanskys zvezda, published in the Jewish Antonosxus Oblast, has carried
several articles by local authors who have shown omopulitan and nationalistic
tendencies. Such errors are particularly evident in articles by Babinkov,
who tries to separate the creative power and 6Avelopaent of Jewish writers
from the favorable influen)e of Russian olausical and Soviet literature.
He is a follower and admirer of the Jewish writer Der-lister, a bcurreois,
nationalistic cosmopolitan. Nationalistic tendencies have also been noted
in critical reviews, published in the newspapers 3irobidzhanssgaya zvezda and
Bisobidshaner Stern, by Killer, Slutekiy, PoUrushin, sLd Shimenkc. R. Idcv,
journalist with the newspaper Tik)'ookeona ya zvezda, we criticized for his
favorable review of the operetta P~ _sa d Qi (Tb., Dollar Princess)
and his nafa.aorable review of the past' Zakon chesti (Law of Honor).
Far Eastern artists Shkrab and Tsimerinov were criticized tar aestheticism
in their art work. Shebertsov, director of the Bray Administration of :sbtion
Picture Distribution, and Maley, director of "Glavkinoprokat" (Main Administration
of Notion Picture Releases), were criticized for permitting showings of foreign
f iln,. Candidate in Philological Bcienaes Doebrovekiy, head of the chair of
literature at the Khabarovsk Pedagogical Institute, and Candidate in Philosophical
SoleLses Fisher, head of the chat- of Marxism-Leninism at the Institute, have
been guilty of ideological errors in their teaching. Professors and students of
the Khabarovsk Medical Institute have been guilt; of adhering to foreign ideas
and of ideological deviations.
Among those who adnitted their errors at the conference were Syrtsov,
director of the pedagogical institute; Rogal', responsible secretary of the
Khabarovsk division of the Union of Sa iet Writers; I1'inekiy, responsible
editor of Tikhookeanaksva Zvezda, and Dombrovek'- ?'nd Fisher. Critic Aluf's
speech did not satisfy the conference and ladicated that he did not realize the
seriousness of the errors with which he is charged.
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J86T1.L AO M?B`2L ON COdWDPOLlTANISM r- Tikhookeanekaya Zvegda, No 97, 26 Apr
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held, a conference, on the drive against cosmopolitanism,okhin, secretary of the
Oblast Party Coaittee, gave the main report which cited specific writers and works
which had been guilty, of spreading false ideology throughout the
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those cited were G.Rebinkov, I. bobrushin, D. Bergellem, Slutskiy, all wham.
had supported, foreign nationalistic views and had emphasized Jewish literature
instead of Bavlet'literature
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er, in h1s story Birobidshsn, was guilty of
serious errors when, he attempted to single out Birobidghan from the rest: of the
country aand.pi,tured it as the one prosised land for Soviet Jews.
.Msl'tinakiy, editor of the alamnae Birobu i 'but to the confereaaoe his
error in publishing certain erticles.by Dobruahin, but did not
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saes ae to the condition' of criticism in the alnsnac, Speeches by Rabinkoy sad
Miller also failed to satisfy the conference, since they rid not admit their ais-
takes,.but rather tried to excuse them.
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