A new attack on censorship
It was planned as Moscow's publishing party of the year, perhaps even of the decade. But when Soviet literati, and a few Western journalists, arrived at the Rhythm Café last week, they found a sign on the door announcing that the party site was closed for "cleaning." Workers at the people's bistro said that sanitary inspectors had descended on it during the night, found the precincts wanting and ordered a day of mandatory hygiene.
That heavyhanded action was apparently the Soviet hierarchy's response to an unprecedented literary stroke...
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