RUSSIA: Mere Trifle

In Komsomolskaya Pravda (Communist Youth's Truth) one B. Dairedzhiev last week blasted the magazine Oktyabr (October) for "bourgeois sentimentality." He particularly singled out a story called "Comrade Anna," about a Soviet family whose happiness was blighted when the father fell in love with another woman.

Stuff & nonsense, snorted B. Dairedzhiev: "The happiness of a Soviet husband and wife sharing a community of interests would not be disturbed by any such trivial occurrence."

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