Under a Cruel Star by Helen Epstein

Author:Helen Epstein [Epstein, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

At the time there was a film being shown in Prague which Comrade Stano liked to discuss, with deep emotion, calling it the pinnacle of Socialist Realism and a masterful reflection of Soviet life. It was called Cossacks from the Kuban and it featured buxom young women and handsome young men turning hay and harvesting wheat to the accompaniment of a four-part chorus of socialist work songs. Perfect harmony reigned in this classless paradise and one of our editors, in what was obviously a fit of temporary insanity, remarked that the film had struck her as just another grade-B operetta. The remark rendered the collective speechless. The editor was asked to conduct a self-critique at the next meeting and, with the help of all the comrades, to correct her erroneous views. She was asked to continue correcting them for some ten more meetings and, had it not been for the complete exhaustion of everyone concerned, she would still have been doing penance in 1968.

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