INDICATIONS OF DOMESTIC DIFFICULTIES

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Navy Day
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Ukrainian. Dlationalism
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Shortcomir~s
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Agriculture
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Industry
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H~us ing
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Yar~ty A
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Enlarged Farms
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Navy Day gets relatively little publicity in Radio M~sc~w's broadca$ta, and regianal
camment on the occeaion is fragmentary. Ideological failings, particularly in art
and literature, aro still discussed a;': some length in a variety of contexts.
Shortcomings in Party ac~tivitiea, in industry and, particularly in agriculture continue
to dcminate the radio output. The reluctance of workers to make better use of
available technical facilities is emphasized. There is same reference to enlarged
collective farms and the advantages derived from larger a,llricultural units.
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Tho only regional comment on Navy Day appears in RADYANSKA iJF;.RAINA and KAZ~KHSTANSKAYA
PRA4'DA of 29 July which; like PRAVDA ~f the same date, refer to the occasi~an in
conventional torms. KAZAKHSTANSKAYA PRAVDA else uses the occasion to criticize the
Dosflot (Dobrovolnoye Obschestvo Sodeystvia Flotu - paramilitary organizat~~n ?or
co~_perstion with the Navy) of the Kazakh SSR for not doing its best in the 'matter of
enrolling morn youth into its ranks and creating additional primary organi~tiations.
The Party, Soviet and Komsomol organizations of the Republic are said to bye giving
poor assistance to the Dosflot organizations and failir~ to direct their activities.
RADYANSKA UKRAINA speaks of the USSR as a great maritime power, and emphaei2as the
importance of Dosflot in publicizing the Soviet Navy among the masses of the'
population. It also refers to the growing strength and purely defensive flunction
of the Navy : ~
In reply to the criminal deeds of the enemies of peace, the
Soviet people are showing more care for the strengthening...
of the Army and the Navy.... The Soviet Navy was, is and
will be the sole defender of our sea borders. (29 July)
CHF.RNOMORSKA KOMUNA calla for a continuing and ruthless struggle against Ukrainian
bourgeois nationalism. It cites the works of some Odessa writers and critics, and
points to the "nationalistic blunders" that were committed in several poems'by
Virkhman and in the poem "Ukraine" by Bondarenko. There is no mention of ~th~
content of these poems but the seriousness of the blunders is implicit in the paper's
reference to the "unhealthy atmosphere" that exists among the writers:
The rayon Party organization has failed to help the Party
primary organizations in improving political education and
ideological work among the writers regardless of the fact
that an unhealthy atmosphere based on the absence of
principles and friendship prevails. (19 July)
The Vodnotranaportny Rayon Communist Party, according to the same paper, has failed to
organize the teaching of Marxism and Leninism among sehaol teachers, and tieis done
very little to improve Party-ideological work among the actors of the Zhovtneva
Revolutsia (October Revolution) and the Opera And ballet theatres. The letter is
found guilty of deviating from "historical truth," and the appropriate Party,
workers of the Vodnotransportny Rayon are criticized for their failure toyprevent
such mistakes: i
Tho secretaries and other Party workers of the Vodnotransportr~y
Rayon do not penetrate deeply enough into 'the life and
activities of such an important group of intelligentsia as
the workers of the Opera And Hallet Theatre. The directors olfl,
that Theatre assumed an uncritical attitude toward the
"Bogdan Khmelnitsky" opera whose libretto contains serious
shortcomings regarding historical truth. ,.~!
RADYANSKA UKRAINA, assailing the bourgeois nationalistic i&eology and the~ebsence
of ideas in the work of individual writers, deplores the "unhealthy circumstances"
that led to the production of such an "abortive" opera as "From A Sincere~iHeert"
by Zhukovsky. The editorial also admonishes the Radyanska Shkola Publishing House
fir its favorable criticism of Sosyura's recently-condemned poem "Love they Ukraine."
The paper says that the Ukrainian Academyr of Sciences was guilty of a similar error
but does not amplify the point:
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The same line had Leon taken i.n the second volume of the
"llistory of Ukrainian Literature," prepared by tlw
Institute of iJkraiuian Literature . of the Ukrainian
_~cadomy of Sciences.
1~s same attitude of friendliness, of glossing over
mistakes, prevails also in the Union of Soviet Composers
of. the Ukraine. (22 July)
The pertine~lco of the P1'til1VDA criticism of ideological work (2 and ;' July) to the
situation in tlw Dnepropetrovsk Gblast is admitted in a ZAR'YJ~ (Dawn) editorial of
25 July v-h:i.ch deals with the low quality of lee'ure propaganda. The propaganda
situation :i.R said to be particularly reprehensible in the Pereschepinsky and
ICrynichans}c,?r rayons whore the Society for the Propagation of Political and
Scientific Knowledge exists only formally. The low theoretical and ideological
level of the lecture propaganda is attributed to the lour lev~sl of control and
leadership on ?tho part of the local Party Committees which are not devoting
sufficient attention to matters of ideology.
The ideological theme is taken up again by RADYNISKA UKRIIDL2 on 26 July. I t passes the
verdict "guilty" on the entire Republic: "The facts shrn- that various ideological
perversions Dave not been eradicated entirely. This is especially true of the Ukraine."
Involved in ?tliis blanket indictment, among others, are the ISiev, Kharkov, Lvov,
Zaporozhye a:~d a number of other Party organi~..ations where "serious mistakes in tiro
state of ideological Work were discovered." The Zaporozhye Past;r officials are
singled out for their "blundering supervision" of ideological ~^ork. Only political
imbecility, says the paper, can explain their formal attitude toward the rectifica-
tion of e:i?o:~?., in ideological work.
Reiterating -tiro Communist dictLm ?that Soviet culture is national in form and socialist
in conten+,; ~ =:'LnvnNSKA UICRt1IiQl1 observ?s that the people are not ~~et up to -the required
ideology. cal. ~s?tandard
Since,,..the consciousness of the people lags behind
economic developments, the remnants of capitalism in 'the
Soviet Union have not yet been fully eradicated from the
??ecple's minds. 1`ha views, traditions and habits established
by the capitalist system still survive...although capitalism
has long been absent from the economy of our country. (26 Jttly)
Low-level ideological work is also reported from the Proskurov oblast (27 July) whore
the lectt~ses sbonsored by the Soc;ety for the Propagation of Scientific and Political
Knowledge are not as "militant" as Aoishevik propaganda should be.
A~x?iculttiro: In a letter to Stalin dated 17 July, the agricultural workers of the
Kazakh SSR sneak in glowing terms of the successes they have a,cl~.eved. According to
the letter the 5 year Flan for increasing livestock, has been fulfilled, and the plan
for the expansion of the sowing axoa hhs been exceeded. Iiowevor, K1IZAIO?ISTANSKAYA
PRAVDA is loss optimistic about the agricultural situation, and attributes the
disruption of agricultural plans to inefficient administration:
Insufficient direction on the part of responsible organs
which do not show interest in the condition of plantations...
as well as inoporativc~ direction of lcolkhozes and machine-
tractor stations have brought about the disruption of
agricultural plans. Eeper..ially poor is the progress of
industrial crop cultivation in the South Kazakhstan
oblast. (31 July)
The paper oleo reveals that in Dzhambt~l Oblast, whore there have bean complaints of a
shortage of cultivating machinery, a number of newly-delivered tractors were found
idle in the stores of the Agricultural Bureau.
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Considerable losses of grain, which resulted from faulty harvesting organizationlland
inadequa~.ci pro~oaration of transportation facilities lie the Dzluxmbul C7blast, are deplored
by KAZ.~11~15T112,SKllX1l PRAVDA o!' 26 July. It claims the the failure to insure the
neceesax^,,? maclv.nery for moving t2i? grain from combines to s-torag~?e resulted in the
combines being paralyzed shale tfie cheat was over-ripening in the field.. The oiiitorial
claims that frequently losses in~liarveeting are the ,fault of the combine operators.
It urges heads of machine-tractor stations to cut pa me to combiners whose I~
leases exceed 30 percent. Pilfe rcge seems to be one~of the elements involved in!the
great grain losses, for thm editorial reminds agricu tural officials, that they !,
should assume personal responaibi~lity for the harves~, and that "it is imperative
to weigh the ?nrain as often ae possible." it
The Kaz~rlt SSR is also lagging behhind the .Plan for construction of wells, ponds Arid
water reservoirs--ell part of thenationwide afforestation and irrigation project--and
KA7.AIQISTAIdSI{AYA PftAVDA (25 July reminds the Republic's agricultural ~-orkers of their
promise to Stalin to build 3,500 wells and 200 pondsand reservoirs this year. There
is no mention of the number of wells and ponds already built but the annual plan is
said to have been fulfilled by onl'~* 1u.8 percent. In the Alma Ata oblast for ~,
example, where the wall-construction plan was fulfilled by only 25 percent, the j
collective farms are unable to utilize their pastures because of insufficient orator.
The South Iiazalthstn and Dzhambul oblasts are said tobe "?xcaptionally lagging in flue
task. " i ~~ i
Slog harvesting and grain lassesi',n a number of oblasts in the sine are discussed
in a R11DY11NSKJ1 UHIIAINA editorial (!19 July). which men ions the Gaporozhye, Kirovofrad,
Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Nikolayev~'iand Vinnitsa oblas~s as particularly slow I
agricultural areas. Reluctance ~toi utilize agricultural machinery ie given as the
chief reasons for their backwardness:
But why is the tempo of harvesting work (in th,oso oblasts) I
so low and why doesi~.t not meet the requirements of today?
Because technology ie far from being uilizod....
KIROVOC:RADSKA PRAVDA also inveighs against the inadmissible grain losses in the oblast,
particularly in Potravsky, Kamonsky and 1~lexandrovsky rayons. Isere only 22 to 25
percent of the harvested crops had boon stacked by 20 July, and in the Bolshevyskovsky,
Khiuelevsky and Plovgorodkovsky* ray, Ions only four to fi ~e percent of the straw for
aolkhoz use has been stacked so fFir. ~ I,
PdOLOT (Rostov, 25 July) discueses~'~ithe desirability of pre-scheduled grain delivery,
criticizing a number of rayons ?or being far behind schedule. Poor organization ~lof
transportation fhcilities accounts for the bad ,job, the paper charges. An implicit
admission of insufficient motor transportation is also contained in the paper's ~i
suggestion that as mazy draft animals as possible be~i:aed to transport the grain.''
4rain deliveries are being conducted t (satisfactorily
in the Malchevsky, Krieharslcy, Alexeyo-Lozovslcy, I
Selivanovsky, Bolsha~Krepinsky, Anastesievslty,
Fedorovsky and Itrivorogsky rayons. ~
failures in the construction of Halm stock buildings in the Rostov oblast ie concl~edod
by MOLOT (28 July) which asserts ghat 3n 45 rayons of the oblast not a single
building has been erected during -lie past six months, despite the fact that at least
6,000 buildings must bo built to till the gap bo?tw?onl the e:!panding cattle herds '~
and available housing. The semi-annual plan for the :construction of farm stock
buildings, says the paper, has bean fulfilled by only~2.4 percent.
On 26 July I:':OLOT notes that waste ~~ f collective farm land vor~*os an the criminal. ~I
Oblast agricultural officials are ~,xeminded that the tenure of land, under the
kolkhoz chmrter (kolkhozny ustav),~I (does no?1r prosuppos~p ownership: "Land ie. the ~
property of the State and is held by the kollshozes in~perpetuity. Party organs ~~
must make flue plain to all kollsho~niks." The issue ~s highlighted because kollshoz
lands wore found to be "wasted" in~the Oktyabrairy rayPn. The editorial does not I
make clear whether the land was 1e~i?t uncultivated or uses for private purposes, but
the oharge that it constitutes violation of the lsolkhpz charter suggests the latter
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possibility; failure 'to utilize all ~^t:ltivable land is usuall;,~ ro,arded as inefficiency
or poor administration and not as a violation of the collecti?:e farm statute:
The 'code,' writes Comrade Stalin, is an effective law.
It ie a fundamental law or the building of a now
society in the villages.... P.ayen Tarty Committees must
equip Communists and lead9rs of agricultural artols
with Lenin-Stalin teachings on the kolkhoz s-,~si:om.
', STALINGP.P.ASKAY~1 PRAVDA complains of the inadequate fodder silage and tractor
utilization in the oblasts of the Stalingrad region asserting that the rayon Party
committees are responsible for these shorteominge. The time 1sg between hay~n~ing
and the storage of silage is said to be serious in the Saprinsky, I;ltonsky, Bykoti~,
Stare-Poltavsky, Kotelnikovsky and Proleyka rayons. The situation is not much
batter in the protective-forest and machine-tractor stations, B7 of which "have
failed to organize the ensilage of fodder in accordance with the established work
plan.?
In Krasnoarmeisky rayon, where there are morn than 200
tractors, the machine-tractor stations have plowed only
112 hectares. I~~attors are even worse in the Dobovsky
and (Gorno-Vodyanovsky) machine-tractor stations crhere
only 129 and 52 hectares of land respectively Trero
plowed. (28 July)
Shortcomings are also reported in other areas. "Insufferab];l slog" kolirnoz construction
in the Klierson oblast is charged by IZf1DDI~PRYANSKA PRAVDA which says that certain
officials of the oblast marketing organizations must share the guilt with ?the
directors of kolkhoz construction, in view of their "irresponsible Attitude tcrnard
supplying the kolkhozes with timber." The paper cites an extreme case of
corruption resulting from poor organizations
Ln the Lenin kolkhoz, Gornostayevsky rayon, a construction
brigade of 25 people was set up but it fell to pieces
without starting work. The brigade leader alone is
occupying himself" with construction work: he is building
a house for himself. (31 July)
Agricultural shortcomings ranging in definition from "very serious" to "poor" are
.reported also from the following areas:
Odessa: "the state of grain delivery is still very bad...." (BOL51iEVI.STSKOYE ZAIAAIYA,
27 July)
Stavropol: "a considerabls portion of the delivery plan has not yet been fulfilled.."
(STAVROPOISItAYls PREIVDA, 27 July j
Proskurov: ajn the oblast as a vrhole the grain delivery has not yet reached the
desired tempo." (RADYANSKE PODILYI~, 17 July)
Vinnitsa: "grain deliveries are backward ~~n a considerable number of rayons."
(VINNITSIG2 PItllVDll, 25 July)
Yerevan (Armenian SSR): "Slow harvesting and unsatisfactory employment of machines."
(SrJVIETACzAN Ii/iYASDAN, 25 July)
Indug~Cryi Shortcomings in industrial construction and mining are strongly criticized
by KA,~~SSTANSICAYA PRAVDA (24 and 28 July), and charges ax?e leveled against "man;T
constz?iction trusts and administrations of the Republic." The Kazakh metallurgical
Construction Trust is cited as an extreme case; it is "in debt to the State" for
lagging be~~.nd the plan from month to month and at the same time slwwing a 20-percent
increase in t:~ expenditure as compared to the proposed costs Another one is the
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(ShakhtuUQ) Constr~.iction Administra~`~i-ion, said to be "inexcusaU~~" slow in the completion
of its projects: 'i
The productivity of eXaavators, mixers, transporters
and other machinery does not oven reach 50 pert?nt of
their potential.~e. I'xi one quarter alone, the coat
of construction-installation work increased by
598,000 rubles, (2~ July)
Lack of leadership in the republican enterprises and ministries ie held responsible
for. the poor shrnring made by the Leninogorsk lead plant and the Karaganda-Ugol
Coal Trust (?_8 July). ICa2akhstan workers are reminded of their promise to Stalin
to achiov~e a high level of production, and told that "these shortcomings must be
eliminated forthwith"~ ~i
..,the lead plant in Leninogorsk is in heavy debt. It
has failed to complete~'Ithe quarterly and semi-annual
plans due to bad organ~~zation of labor....
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Not all minds of the ,Karaganda-Ugol Coal Combine are
fulfilling the plans which shows that work schedules
are not being followe'~~_~ The average monthly production
of coal, by means of the "Donbas".combine extractor, is
1000 tons short of that provided.by the plan. (28 July)
Pfct1.VDA UKR1LIIdY admits that the produ tion of building materials in the Republic ie
still lagging behind "the demands ofthe rising level of economy." This phrasing
suggests that an upward-revision has been made in the production schedule for the
building materials industry, particularly in view of the Central Statistical
Bureau's announcement that the production of building materials in the Ukraine
during the first post war five-year plan exceeded the prewar 1QVOl. This new
schedule may also account for the fa:titzre of the building materials industry to
cope with itc plans in the first q?.?.c?~;er of 1951 c~hen as officially announced,
it was fulfilled by onl;,? 97 percent.i Tho same piper also complains of the pocr
quality of the materials produced, n~ru ur~-es the workers of the Uuilding materials
industry to "liquidate their debt -~.ot}ze cot:ntr;; and fulfil...the annual flan."
(26 July) I
Slaw progress in the building of irdtistrial and weli'are establislunvnts is said by
STAVItOPOLSKAYA PRAVDA (25 July) -to bet dub to the lo4r level of -the organization of
labor:
This is partfcularl;f apparent at the brick plant in
Georgiovsk, the fats-producing plant in rlotrinnomysk, the
Lenin plant in Georgio~~sk, the cotton mill in Budennovsk
and the meat combine in Stavropol.
A report :rem Orel (27 Ju1y1 quotes ORLOVSItI.Y~ PRl>VD?1 as saying that "a number of
local industries (and) enterprises ale in debt to the State." Among them are two
brick plants and a hydraulic machiner,,~ plant in Yelets. Rl1BOCI~ PUT says that in
Smolensk the oblaat industrial and invalids' cooperatives are derelict in their
duties: I
They do not moot the needs of the workers in the repair
of footwear, clothing, ~~'urniture, metal goods and other
lwusehold effects. (25July)
Iiousirt~?: Lack of attention ?to the workers' welfare ie charged to the rti.nistz^,~ for
the Construction of Enterprises of the rllachino-Building Industry by the Sixth
Plenum of the Council of Trade Unions. The Plenum points out i;het despite the fact
that over 100 million square motets of living (floor) space hav@ boon built and
restored in the post-war years, housing. construction fo. the r2fn:istry's workers is
still not what i?t should be. rIo specific instances are cited, but the assumption
is that poor housing conditions are prevalent in all the enterprises of this and
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The speakers (at the Plenum) also criticized tl:e activity
of economic organs of some other ministries and trade unions
for the insufficient attention paid to the improveraont of
living conditions. (T,'t,SS, 2G July)
Party Activities : ^='~'L~YJ! ~~~-,n`-''= dQClares that the 1~7~arkov Ci t;;~ Party Commritte? is
nOt jpalli~:a,.-~a proper COntaCt wlial t11E masse.; despite pr@vi0us CrltlCisms. The Sara@
applies to the :~tarkov So~.?iet loaders vrho do poi. 3other to report to the people
except wh,on tltey have to
,..the majority of the heads of sections o: the cit;~
Soviet Committee hardly ever make reports or sneecho^,
regarding it to be sufi'icient to give their reports onl;,r
d~~~ing the electoral campaign. (21 Jule)
A terse arrouncoment by the Plenum of the Central uommi~ctoe of the Turkmenian Comtmzn3et
Party says that Batyrov, First SocrAtax^~ of the Central Committee, was relieved of
h3 s duti.o: cued replaced by IIabayev. It i4 evident that the dismissal or purge of
Bstyrov had been determined before the Plentun took place for the principal address
before the Central Committee was msdo by une of the other secretaries, Telnikov, and
not by ilia First Secretary, vrho ust~.ally makes the opening speech. (Home Service,
17 July)
A stricter observance of the Komsomol charter (ustav) is rsged in the ICOr:LS~.i0I,S1SAY1i
1'RAVDA editoria7_ of 18 July. The paper says that the fail~?o to pay Komsomol
membership dtto;~ reveals lack of discipline and inadequate education: "The feat that
in certain oz~(;anizations some members have not paid their membership duos must be
regarded as c defect in their education."
Serious shortcomings in the work of pt?imar~?*, rayon and oblast Komsomol committ@e~ ^re
reported b;r BOL`:11~'ISTSItriY'1 r.40IAI11JZH (Bolshevist Youth) in connection with the
Smolensk obla.^,t conference of kolkhoz Komsomol secrotari.es held on 22 Ju1~*. r1o
details are mentioned beyond the exhortation b3* First Secro~taz^,* i;Layeshinkov to sro~~k
for the "ftsthor organizational and economic strengtheni.n~; oi' ?tlte collective farms."
The paper also said that other oblast organizations wars also justly criticized.
(26 July)
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T2te collective farm verger (ukrupnonnie kollsrtozi), initiated a~:out two years ag^o, gets
little publicit;- on the r.T.oscaw a_*td regional radios, and the .ni'reciuont references to
the campaign i.rdirate that the process of amalgamating the sr~a11 rellectivo farms
into larger epee is probabl;! slosier Char. expected. The n!tmber of enlarged collective
farms in any Ronttblic, oblast or other administrative di~ri.sion is riot mdntioned.
T11.SS makes passin reference to 11,000 enlarged collective farms ir. the Ukraine
brit does not say whether that rntmber constitutes the total or just part of the
Ukrainian large farms. In a broadcast for agitators on the personal and communal
interests of the rolloctiee farmers (Voreschilovgrad, 18 J~:1;; ), (,:l.althmitslcy) sa;,*s
that the collective farm m?rgcr. l~eratno necossar,; because "small a~ric~.tlt:tral artels
began to hinder -the ?1.tllest ?_t;.l:ization of the ntachinerr and ent?ip:,iont provided by
the State," ar:d therefore could nog i,zise Labor productivity- vi:tich is "the chie~"'
target of socialist agriculture.
(S]~?t'~shmitsl~.,j) gods on to s1;,* thxt -tlte plots of land hold by the individual kolll:ozn.ks
will not be affeetod by the erlar,?o:~ent, a.nd ~i.ll remain the sa;.tE "tuitil the
kolkhoznil:s reject them thomselve:~, convinced of their disadvazitageo." .lmot~; rho
other compelling reasons cited as being behind the drive for larger collective farm:,
are the ^.nti-social tendencies ~rhi.ch, as empl-uisiz~?t on varirnts occasions before, find
a favorable atmosphere on small ferns. The enlarhod farms, says the conunontator,
are necossaz^J for inculcating among the kollhoznilts "the importance of communal vrn-~?:
and the interests of cormmtrial econorm,/ b;j eliminating anti-social tendencies."
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In a talk on Crowing collective farm intone since the rear, Potulthov reverts to the farm
merger question (24 July) and lists some of the benefits accruing from aucii monger,
without, hcm~ever, citing arty specific figures i
The enlargement of the smaller collective farms has led
to still further benefits in the lives of its workers.
T'he incomes of the enlarged collective farms are, as'a rule,
greater than were the combined incomes of the stoaller
farms noe- making up the lergsr unit.
bus in the enlarged collective farms called Krasx~
Partisan and Krasny Chernomorets of the Krasnodar tai
the pay in money to oath worker par day increased '
tenfold since amalgntuation of the ema116r unite. '
P.~ffSCELINIGOUS
Discussing the ~,~i.~hts of Soviet citiza~ visa-vie those in the capitalist countries
(nReplies to Listeners' Letters," 25 July), Qrlov asserts that there ie no lae
forbidding the individual to listen or write to arty radio statioai in the world and
that the departure of citizens from the USSR is governed by normal passport and
immigration regulations. Orlov does not mention, that foreign broadcasts are 3ammed
that it is almost impossible for a Soviet citizen to leave the country permanentlf.
Or1ov resorts to the familiar device of pointing to the numerous foreign delegations
visiting the USSR every year, and contrasts the welcome they receive in the Soviet
Union Frith the "insurmountable obstacles set up by the State Dopartusent to keep
foreigners out except for a few handpicked individuals."
A report from Alma Ata (1l, July) lists five of the nerdy-elected secretaries of the
~tazakh Komsomol Central Committee. Judging by the names four of them, including the
first secretary, appear to be Russian. Qnly one, (Kerimbaev), seems to be a Ka$akh,.
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