Kremlinological Inexactitudes

Since the opening of the Soviet Communist Party Conference in Moscow, the Faculty of Speculative Sovietology at Twicester University has naturally been in a ferment of activity. Some of the most fruitful discussion took place at a seminal organized by Professor Bobolov (author of Everyday Life in Russia, by Pure Deduction), to study the three published versions of a phrase in Chou En-lai’s speech referring to the Yangtse and Volga rivers: A: The friendship between China and the Soviet Union would last through the ages “like the waters of the Yangtse and the Volga rivers.” B: There had been differences between the Chinese and Soviet parties, but “the Volga and the Yangtse flow in the same direction.” C: There had been differences, but “now the Volga and the Yangtse flow in the same direction.”

Czrynk: Only a very naive observer would imagine that this proliferation of versions is accidental. Coupled with the recent case of the party secretary in Rybinsk, who was quoted by the Rybinsk Pravda as saying that the socialist camp stood for peaceful coexistence, and by the Rybinsk Kommunist as saying that the socialist camp stood for shrdlu gobfre Bdnam qwz, it makes it clear that the terrible struggle for power within the highest cadres of the party is still raging.

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Since the opening of the Soviet Communist Party Conference in Moscow, the Faculty of Speculative Sovietology at Twicester University has naturally been in a ferment of activity. Some of the most fruitful discussion took place at a seminal organized by Professor Bobolov (author of Everyday Life in Russia, by Pure Deduction), to study the three published versions of a phrase in Chou En-lai’s speech referring to the Yangtse and Volga rivers: A: The friendship between China and the Soviet Union would last through the ages “like the waters of the Yangtse and the Volga rivers.” B: There had been differences between the Chinese and Soviet parties, but “the Volga and the Yangtse flow in the same direction.” C: There had been differences, but “now the Volga and the Yangtse flow in the same direction.”

Czrynk: Only a very naive observer would imagine that this proliferation of versions is accidental. Coupled with the recent case of the party secretary in Rybinsk, who was quoted by the Rybinsk Pravda as saying that the socialist camp stood for peaceful coexistence, and by the Rybinsk Kommunist as saying that the socialist camp stood for shrdlu gobfre Bdnam qwz, it makes it clear that the terrible struggle for power within the highest cadres of the party is still raging.