Czechoslovakia
Sir,—An Australian journ alist, Godfrey Blunden, who
witnessed the Battle of Stalingrad. has since 1946 been making annual trips to Russia's satellites. In an article on Czechoslovakia in 1967 he wrote: “Two decades of Communist rule and Russian overlordship have run down the economy, killed enthusiasm, and made life drab and regimented.” A worker’s weekly wage is SNZI4 and a qualified engineer's one-third more. Its managers of industry, commerce, transport, etc., are not really free men, many of peasant origin, hard, but politically instilled with fear They are there to carry out the Comecon policy; the Soviet Union alone expands output of all types of products, thanks to its satellites’ products being strictly specialised. Czechoslovakia must specialise in machine-tools and electronics for Russia. Such restriction keeps her a satellite. But a new generation is demanding new ethics A waiter recently whispered to Mr Blunden, “Children no longer have to inform on their parents.”—Yours, etc., A. B. CEDARIAN. May 11, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31677, 13 May 1968, Page 12
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161Czechoslovakia Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31677, 13 May 1968, Page 12
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