Russia Called Wasteland of Suspicion'
EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Monday, Aug. 13, 1962 Page 7A
EDITOR'S NOTE felir
R. McKnight, vice president
and executive editor of the
Dallas Times-Herald, is one
of 12 U.S. editors who recent
ly went on an 8,0O0mile, 23
day tour of the Soviet Union.
Following is a condensation
of a series of articles he
wrote on his findings.
By FELIX R. McKMGHT
DALLAS W The Soviet Un
ion I saw is a wasteland of sus
picion simply because it has
never been told the truth about
the United States of America.
It is buried in doubt and dis
trust, thoroughly propagandized
to view us as greedy war pro
fiteers unconcerned about peace
and the rights of man.
The Russian reads only what
they want him to read and he
does what he is told to do.
Only a few hours after our
group of editors left an old DC-3
type plane in the central Asian
area of Samarkand, clutching
rosary beads and saying Method
ist prayers because of a misbe
having right engine, it fell in
the wilderness near Tashkent.
16 Killed
Sixteen were killed one
American from Detroit sur
vived. But not a single word
was printed in the newspapers.
We learned of it through the
American embassy four days
later.
Russians had not even been
told about Telstar, the magnifi
cent American achievement
in international communications
satellites when I left the Soviet
Union although we were con
stantly needled about joining
the Soviets in "atoms for
peace."
The Soviet Union is a massive
conglomeration of incredible
contrast. It is vital and progres
sive in the fields of science and
technology but it is pathetical
ly primitive in the area of liv
ing. No longer is there visible ter
ror in the Soviet Union. Khru
shchev deadened the fear of the
midnight knock from the
. NKVD.
Khrushchev is wily, cunning,
shrewd, tough, able and deter
mined. He stands 5 feet, 5
inches tall and a disproportion
ately small head sits atop a
bulky body.
But he also stands tall and
firm as premier of Russia and
is likely to remain there for
some time.
Now he has the people with
him.
He has improved their lot tre
mendously in recent years
through housing and the gener
al elevation of living standards.
Master politician who plays
a tough game of international
politics, Khrushchev acts like a
man who doesn't want war. But
not for one minute does it mean
that he will abandon the pres
sures that have kept the world
off-balance.
The big goal is still there
world domination.
The man is wildly jealous of
the United States and he will
go to the limit to reach our
levels. He spoke of it in his
conference with us. From what
I saw, he will never make it.
The know-how just isn't there
on too many things. The think
ing, particularly on agriculture,
is primitive.
Khrushchev is pushing,
threatening and goading to get
their sagging agricultural pro
gram into some semblance of
orderly production.
Farms Top Interest
"What interests us most in
America?" the premier asked
in his July 13 conference with
us. "It is organization of farm
production. In this field you
have a great experience worthy
of being studied. And the or
ganization of agricultural work
in the United States is better
than in the Soviet Union. You
have a better range of ma
chinery, especially for stock
farming."
But, of course, he added that
"we will surpass you.
"The main thing is persistence
and work. Time is needed, be
cause nothing can be done at
once. It is essential to train
cadres . . ."
The Soviet Union, its eyes
riveted on youth and the future,
is bringing along the new gen
eration in the country with ten
der hands. It lavishes the
utmost, from kindergarten
through college, on the pliable
young.
In all of the Soviet Union,
there are 739 higher education
al institutions and the lights
burn long on the six-day-a-week
schedule. One of the most im
pressive sights in the Soviet
Union is the University of Moscow.
And over the 15 republics of
the Soviet Union there is a new
skyline thousands upon thou
sands of apartment houses.
It is the Russians' desperate
drive to solve their gravest
problem, housing.
If the goal is achieved, and
state-set goals are achieved by
main strength in Russia, 22 mil
lion apartments will be occu
pied by the end of 1965, con
clusion of the current seven
year - plan roughly, 50 new
cities the size of Dallas in seven
years!
If you see the forest of apart
ments from the air, or even
from a few hundred feet, you
get a first impression of ap- j
proval.
But construction in the main
is appallingly crude. Mainte
nance of the hastily built apart
ments and buildings is even
worse.
Mass transportation in the
Soviet Union is skillfully han
dled, with equipment that out
shines that of many American
cities.
It is a fortunate man, indeed,
who owns an automobile in Rus
sia. Consequently, the burden
falls on subways, motor-driven
and electric buses, electric
street cars, superb railroads and
the one and only state-owned
airline, Aeroflot.
Ninety-nine per cent of the
Soviets rely on public transpor
tationand they get the best
the state can offer.
What is the conclusion to be
drawn after seeing, first hand,
the fountain of communism in
the Soviet Union?
Crises, tensions and strug
gles for the minds of uncom
mitted peoples will be the
world's sad lot for some time to
come.
War? No signs of it but the
threat of it to plague mankind,
perhaps interminably.
The Socialism I saw in Rus
sia is stultifying. It is a dreary
sameness that stifles Initiative
and incentive.
Communism, despite plati
tudes of "peaceful coexistence,"
plans faithfully to follow its
original course domination of
the world.
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