The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-14
YOUTH EBECINNINC TO
 RENEW GAY LIFE
For Years the Soviefs Have Kept Down Pleas
 ures of All Kinds

Telegraph Editors Note--A
 vast change has come over Rus
 sian youth. When the revolution
 took place. the young people of
 Russia were discouraged in their
 efforts to lead the gay lives of other youth. They were taught to
 think of the revolution only.
 Now the bans against gaiety have
 been lifted. They arc encouraged
 to dance, and to play as do the
 youth of other lands. In two ar
 ticles. the first of which is car ried herewith. the story of this
 change. is told.
 (Copyright, 1888. By United Press)
 Moscow. Dec 14-(UP)-In the eyes of its leadership. the commu- mist youth organization, 5000. 900 strong. is healthy, sane. ambitious for the common welfare and above all--morar in tho highest sense.
 An interview with Alexander V. Kosariov. the most powerful lead CT of young people in the Soviet Union, obtained today in the bust ness office of the same building from. which Josef Stalip rules the vast empire of older citizens. dis pelledi many. pre-conceived ideas that have grown up abroad regard ing tho new generation that is preparing to run tho new world
 In the words of Kosariov, 1t is this organization that Is actually training itself for the management of the world. Being serious, it >has no time for the so-called "inlmor- alities," which arc anarchistic and thus outside the communist pale. Being ambitious. It is seeking the highest education. tho greatest de- gree of culture. the greatest com fort for all"
 Summed up. the aims of the communist youths, kosariov said, arc the counterpart of some of the ambitions of American youths,
 'srhcy want" he said. ''a better life. They, too. want nice apur, : ments, comforts, an automobile q gramophonc, good clothes. Nor do communists oppose these things. On the contrary, we arc working for the time when the socialist land will be rich enough to provide these things for everybody. But they know they can attain personol welfare only through tho welfare of their collectives. They know tha, only by living with their class and fighting for it's interests can they achieve their happiness"
 Two phases of youth philosophy, Kosariov insisted, have been wide ly-perhaps purpose1y-misunder- stood in other lands.
 95 The first. concerns what Is known as 'morals' = sex, marriage, di- vorce, birth control.
 The second concerns sports and ,a o rno ,,rruid Y1o y,. competitive athletic contests.
 Tn the relationship of the two sexes, Kosariov said, these young people would pass the sevcrest tests of 2 bourgeois and Christian morality. FN 'I have seen a lot of absurdities in the foreign press about free love. and promiscuity in the U. $. S. R." he said. Tt. is mostly non sense, of course. We have removed some of the economic and pOliti- cal bonds that keep men and wo- mon living together in mutual hate. We are proud of 1t.
 But that does not mean laxness or promiscuity. We aren't against romantic love, and we do not at- tempt to change the ways of na- ture. Any comsomol who marries and unmarries in suspicious haste is quickly taken. to task by his communist nucelus . Our boys are aptato marry at the age of 21 or 22; our girls little sooner Their marital relations, venture to say, are on as high a level as anywhere in the world. Husbands and wives are comrades"
 Regarding birth control. kosa- riov said that in the. Soviet young women were taught to regard abortion, as shameful and finding no moral support among their comsomola comrades" The state, he pointed sssout,s takes on itself a large share of the responsibility for the rearing of children.