The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-16
Vast Changes Under Way With NeW 'SOUietizement'

dustry felt the sting of the propa- ganda and agitation board of the central committee of the Commun- iSt Party which has established a new magazine known as Culture and Life" devoted to re-examining Soviet intellectual life.
 DenOunce Epic of Ivan
 Culture and Life chose as its first target the famous Soviet director, Serge EisenStein. It denounced the second installment of his epic on Ivan the Terrible as "anti-histor- ical and anti-artistic" and an- nounced that the picture would not be released for showing
 On July Is Culture ana Life an- nounced that the State Arts Com- mittee had prohibited the showing of many plays by foreign bourgeois authors, including Somerset Maug- ham, Ferenc Molnar, Arthur Pin ero, and Kaufman and Hart. It followed up on Sept. with an an- nouncement that the central com- mittee had reprimanded severely the State Arts Committee which ex- ercises general supervision over So- viet cultural life for its faulty sel- ection of plays.
 On Aug. 21 Culture and Life att tackled the leading Leningrad nt- erary magazines, zVeSda (Star) and Leningrad, for publishing material alien to Soviet thought and phil osophy. The next day the Lenin- grad Communist Party and writers met and agreed to what the Mos COW dispatches described as "a purge of foreign decadent" elements from Leningrad literary life.
 The purge" cost Nikolai Ttkko- nov, president of the writer's union, his job. The magazine Vvesda was suppressed and half 6 dozen Lem ingrad writers barred from publi- cation. An uncertain number of party functionaries in both Lenin- grad and Moscow were criticized or removed.
 Condemn Fairy Fantasies
 On Aug. 29 the two children's magazines published in Russia felt the ire of Pravda, the newspaper of the Communist Party. The maga- zine Murzilak was criticized for publishing a fairy tale by Kornei Chukovsky which the Pravda edi- torialist characterized as "deErium in the form of a fairy tale'' and the magazine pioneer was aSsailed for failure ito acquaint young read CTS with the problems of life and struggle in our Socialist fatherland, with problems of politics, economy, science and art"
 Possibly the most far-reaching house-cleaning is that in the Ukraine. On Aug. B dispatches from Kiev reported that in the last 18 months "38 percent of all sec retaries of regional party commit tees have been replaced as well as GA percent of all presidents of ex- ecutive committees in the region and two-thirds of the directors of machine tractor stations
 Daily the press has reported dis missals in the steel industry, coal mining, housing. electrical industry, chemical industry, rural party or Sd114Atbb1O41cy 4d14A OOA4VNkAtVO, A0A4- road organizations and city and regional offices.
 On Sept. 5 the Evening Moscow uncovered new target-Leonid Utuossov who is the leader of the best known jazz band in Russia. Utuossov had staged new pro- duction which was designed to show what life for a jazz band would be like 30 years hence in the Russian conception of the Atomic Age"
 The Evening Moscow said his show appeals to low tastes and the high professional performance can- not redeem the theological and art istic vacuity of its contents" He used, the Evening Moscow said, too many western songs in his pro- duction and he failed to choose the best in contemporary Soviet music.
 There are no heroic or lyric songs in the production" the Even ing Moscow concluded.