IDEOLOGIES: Oysters Are a Weapon

"The fishing of oysters," said Moscow Radio this week, "has been renewed in the Black Sea after an interval of 30 years." And where did Soviet bivalves stand in the eternal competition with the west? Before listeners had a chance to ask, Moscow proudly asserted: "The Black Sea oysters are superior in taste and nourishing qualities to French or British oysters."

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