With each passing month, the Soviet Union seems to loosen a bit more the closed attitude that for years epitomized its contacts with the West. Internally, however, the walls of official censorship between the Russian government and its citizens are as high as everwith little likelihood of their coming down in the near future. According to a secret Soviet directive to all media editors and censors obtained by TIME, there remains in Russia a multitude of subjects that cannot be printed or transmitted by radio or TV without prior approval of the requisite authorities.
The directive, dated 1970 but still in...
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