Among the many American bourgeois institutions which the Russians have adapted to their own devices is the quiz program. The Russian version, however, would scarcely get a respectable Hooperating: listeners merely send in questions which omniscient Radio Moscow answers. When a "Soviet citizeness" wrote in recently to ask for a definition of the term "people's democracy," Radio Moscow replied that a people's democracy was a country of a new type, struggling ever onward, ever upward on the road to socialism.
Monitors of the Voice of America had also heard the citizeness' question and, quick as a quiz kid, the Voice...
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