Free Literature and Songs

Abstract

The Soviets live in a country where the media depict the people’s health and happiness with vigour and conviction. The country is building its happy future. The Soviet chiefs dedicate their energy and wisdom to providing the Soviet population with a highly-qualified, scientifically-verified leadership. One cannot help shedding tears when, at their solemn meetings with the Soviet population, a group of ten or eleven-year-old girls in snow-white dresses and red ties run up to the stage, as thousands applaud, to hand over big bunches of beautiful roses and carnations to those who have looked after their happy childhood. Every girl in this group will preserve in her memory the joy and honour of this day. Their parents consider this day a red letter day. Is it not a great day for their family, when their daughter appears on Soviet television before many millions? People take part in the demonstrations in Red Square on the First of May and on the Seventh of November. They will not necessarily know the difference between these two greatest of Soviet holidays — but they are filled with justifiable pride that they have been entitled to enter Red Square carrying slogans and hold in view on top of the Mausoleum the faces that they can see almost every day in newspapers, magazines and on their TV screens. These people read newspapers and books printed by the Soviet publishing houses. They will find in those publications almost everything they need or expect to find. They are not going to find anything extraordinary. There are not too many miracles in life and why should one expect that literature present anything uncommon?