Preparing for the Nixon Visit

Good day, comrade radio listeners. Today’s roundtable discussion is taking place on the eve of a bright spring holiday of labor and peace —May Day. According to an old tradition, the working people of all countries are preparing to celebrate it by reviewing their battle forces in the struggle against imperialism, for peace, democracy and socialism. . . .”

And so on and on goes Gennadiy Shishkin, on Radio Moscow’s morning roundtable program. The participants discuss the debate in West Germany over ratification of Willy Brandt’s treaties with Poland and the Soviet Union (if they aren’t ratified, “confidence in West Germany would be undermined”); recent events in Latin America, where Leninism is having “a great influence . . . on the entire present development process”; and—Vietnam: “The present actions of leaders of the American brasshats,” says radio newsman Boris Dmitriyev, “like a film run backwards, make up a long chain of criminal acts and reckless actions. . . . the situation has completely changed to the disadvantage of the American aggressors. . . . This is evidenced by the successful actions of the patriots in South Vietnam. . . .”

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Good day, comrade radio listeners. Today’s roundtable discussion is taking place on the eve of a bright spring holiday of labor and peace —May Day. According to an old tradition, the working people of all countries are preparing to celebrate it by reviewing their battle forces in the struggle against imperialism, for peace, democracy and socialism. . . .”

And so on and on goes Gennadiy Shishkin, on Radio Moscow’s morning roundtable program. The participants discuss the debate in West Germany over ratification of Willy Brandt’s treaties with Poland and the Soviet Union (if they aren’t ratified, “confidence in West Germany would be undermined”); recent events in Latin America, where Leninism is having “a great influence . . . on the entire present development process”; and—Vietnam: “The present actions of leaders of the American brasshats,” says radio newsman Boris Dmitriyev, “like a film run backwards, make up a long chain of criminal acts and reckless actions. . . . the situation has completely changed to the disadvantage of the American aggressors. . . . This is evidenced by the successful actions of the patriots in South Vietnam. . . .”