RUSSIA: Never Heard of Stalin

Of its Moscow bureau, Boston's Christian Science Monitor asked recently: "Has Russia gone Democratic?", referring to Premier Molotov's recent announcement of "secret, direct and equal" suffrage. Excerpts from the tart answer of Monitor Muscovites last week: "If the Communists were content to express their aims honestly, and to describe conditions in Russia as they are, it would be much easier to sympathize with them. Unfortunately, they prefer to misrepresent conditions not only to their own people, but to the outside world as well, to lay claims to a democracy which still has...