Great moist smacking kisses are as Russian as vodka or borscht. A kiss is the festive greeting of peasant to peasant, irrespective of sex. And no Moscow merchant or lawyer would think of wishing his partner "Merry Christmas" without a buss on both cheeks. Soviet Commissar for Post and Telegraph Nicolai Antipov has lately been brooding darkly, intellectually on Russian kisses.
Last week a new set of cancellation stamps went out to Soviet Post Offices from Leningrad to Odessa. Postmen carried to astonished comrades letters postmarked:
Think Before You Kiss! (Every Kiss Costs...