SAVING SOVIET CULTURE FROM CONTAMINATION
LONDON, October "Fresh measur.es to separate Soviet literature and seientific work from the "decaying and degraded" Western culture are announced in a new Soviet decree, the text of which - has just reaehed London. Tlie diplomatic correspondent of The Times says the decree speaks of ' ' unworthy adulation and servility toWards things foa-eign, " which it says is ' 'widespread among the least stabte representatives of the Soviet intelJigent.sia. " Previous warnings are cited, notably that given last year by the Central Committee of -the Commun* ist Party about the harm done to the Soviet State "in grovelling before eoutemporary Western culture after the manner of several of our writers. ' Such attitudes, the new decree says, must be completely dropped. Soviet trade unions, it says, ' are partly to blamc; tliey do not unmaslc people whu oerpetrate unpatriotic and anti-State acts. The decree cites by name Soviet scientists and historians who, "thirsting for foreign praise and propelled by pettv personal glory, publish abroad articles on their work whicli is really the property of the Soviet State." Such acts degraded the honour and self"respect of the Soviet man.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 October 1947, Page 8
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