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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1969 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
The Internacional Scene
(by Rayeriond Canon)
SOLZHENITSYN
My wife was reading a large
book a couple of weeks ago - a
monumental tome whose author
is a Russian named Solzhenitsyn.
The first thing I did when I gave
the book to her was tell her how
to pronounce the name. I won't
bother trying to do the same for
you - it's enough to know that
it's one of those Russian tongue -
twisters that somehow seem
easier to pronounce in the Rus-
sian alphabet than when they
are transcribed into English.
You probably don't know who
Solzhenitsyn is, so I'll relieve
the suspense by telling you that
he is one of Russia's greatest
living authors, and that most of
his fame comes from the fact
that the major works have been
published in the West, but never
in Russia. This is not the first
time that something strange has
happened to a Russian author,
but seldom to a man of such tal-
ent as Solzhenitsyn. You may
recall that when Boris Pasturnak
was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Literature for Doctor Zhivago, he
was not allowed by the Russian
authorities to accept the prize.
His book, too, became better
known in the West than in Russia,
and was made into a very pro-
fitable film.
The story of Solzhenitsyn's
life is very interesting in that he
is a former prison camp inmate
whose writing has been about
the abuses of the Stalin regime.
Now, for quite a while after
Stalin's death, be was accused
of having committed a great
many crimes in the name of
Communism, and the position
of honour which he held beside
that of Lenin was down -graded
to the extent that his body was
removed from his position in
front of the Kremlin to a burial
frounds quite a way removed
rom where many people could
see it. All this was done during
Khruschev's period of power,
and now that Nikita is gone, the
Stalin era is once more being
Federation Head
Outlines Pian
"We must ensure that we are
working to help them in the way
they feel they need help, " he
emphasizes.
The new Federation leader
calls for (1) the service member
program to be "improved, chang-
ed and expanded to fit the var-
ied needs of farmers; "and (2)
for the existing relationships
"between direct members, count:
or Township organizations and
the OFA" to be improved.
Ivir. Hill states that if the
Federation is "to provide the
services that the commodity
groups, counties and individual
members need they must offer
ideas and proposals."
"They must explain what
service they require and how
we can best provide thein, " he
adds.
The OFA president closes off
his editorial by stating that the
Federation must: (1) provide the
necessary services as profession-
ally and economically as pos-
sible; (2) help to co-ordinate
the activities of marketing board:
where they have common needs
and (3) help through our service
memberships and county organ-
izations to improve the commun-
ication to both farmers and
their marketing boards.
In his first editorial as pres-
ident.of the Ontario Federation
of Agriculture, Gordon Hill of
Varna says that. "for farmers there
is no power without unity." The
editorial was miiiled to farmers
this week.
Mr. Hill stresses that the OFA
"must assume the offensive, de-
cide what policies farmers want,
then stand firm for thern and
work diligently to have them
implemented.
He goes on to point out that
"meetings will be set up with
county groups and representat-
ives of service members."
regarded in a favourable light.
For this reason any author who
writes against it at this time is
likely to come under suspicion,
It is also a crime, in the eyes
of the Soviet hierarchy, for a
writer to have his books publish-
ed abroad without the consent
of the proper authorities. This
adds up to a pretty serious charge.
and so when there was news leak-
ed out of Russia that the Soviet
Union was expelling the author
from the local writer's union, it
was something that could be en-
tirely believed. According to
the news, the expulsion was "for
actively using the bourgeois
anti-Soviet press for anti-Soviet
propaganda."
This is not the first time that
this Russian author has been in
trouble. In 1967 he proposed
that the writer's union ban cen-
sorship on literary works. At
the same time he attacked the
same union for impeding the
publication of his works in the
Soviet Union. He has, to his
credit, not taken his latest sus-
pension without giving back some
fight, and has openly accused
the Soviet Union of being "a
sick society," He accused the
writer's union of being totally
unable to accept anything con-
structive or good, only what he
termed their "hate violence."
Since he was expelled without
being given a chance to defend
himself, this act also came in
for its share of condemnation.
I find the whold case extrem-
ely revealing of the true feeling
of the Russian hierarchy. True,
they niay have come a long way
from the Stalin era, but they
are still afraid of too much crit-
icism or change, either within
or outside of Russia. The fresh
winds of reform in Czechoslov-
akia and in the writings of Sol-
zhenitsyn are both ample test-
imony of this.
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