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International Socialist Review, Spring 1958

 

Stalinist “Vigilance”

 

From International Socialist Review, Vol.19 No.2, Spring 1958, p.48.
Transcription & mark-up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.

 

The widespread mistrust of individual initiative has eaten so deeply into public life [in the USSR] that even when young people join together in publicly proclaimed tasks, they may be met with suspicion and fear. For example, not so long ago a group of Russian youngsters banded together for hikes, games, swimming parties, and also to help keep up their city’s parks. Officials of the Young Communist League learned of this extraordinary development, suspected the orthodoxy of a group that had formed without their knowledge, and sent an emissary to the local high school to look into the “secret organization.” “It is only natural,” Komsomolskaya Pravda ruefully concluded, “that the young people are afraid to meet any longer.”

The Reporter, Feb. 20

 
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