Show The Utah Statesman Wednesday October 1 0 1 979 Page 9 OFILE proJesscr describes Soviet life USU kj Gw A "There is fear A lady would be talking to us and a KGB would Hughes copy of Newsweek magazine OlUtM blue jeans sell for 300 in ud tomatoes are 7 a pound according to LSU plant fli— come over and listen and she would and shake nervously leave” Wyse said quickly “Any dissention is quickly defected end ’ quickly squelched ' “Any dissention is quickly detected and quickly squelched' 4 Wyse cited several examples of bias in the Soviet media both in television news reports and in the of American movies shown in tpe Russia "In a television news report on unemployment in Chicago the way the footage was shot conveyed the picture that essentially half the population of Chicago was out of work and the other half was scared to death of losing their jobs” W yse said No films that depict Russians in and the a had light are shown merit an films that are shown in Soviet theaters are of the Clint f dstwfwsl volenti nature accor (ling to S v se heir impression of us is that we are a verv violent jeple whuh ' S vs- said true to some extent I he Russians have a tremendous inferiority inmpiex and a lot of what thev sav is colored bv this Th v are verv defensive so it s hard to find out how thev reailv feel Soviet mdtarv space and steel pr duct ion technologies rival those but in the Western world technological advances never flter down to the general public aicor to W y se dng ' The typical Soviet works 4') hour a week and spends the rest of his time shopping looking for acI he ceptable go sis ’A se said have rronev -- u't nothing to sfiend V - i 1 “in there Rostov w$ processed food" 'la - Rostov tra- precewc fsct "tp-- equive-er- v a- - fca that J® hra they Ammrans "“1 hch g- -t a - vards : Wvse explained most Russian beUve that ever thing wrong with their count f such as Laik ofW con-Id or bv sumer goods wa- cau-War d:f 1 1 know only tie partv line wth as unepUy nient Russians particularly relatives r ti Vhink of America 78 JJ? according to Wyse Soviets that it would be a big r the U S to sign the They would whisper 10 us" W yse said that m Russia real people most trusted aot uncommon to be to the KGB iviv iet secret Jrthe !®r f 108 something ovrnment chance for another Tfcussia It s been said “v total employment K“l£tungth ' — si A- - n u 'Tf vou rssi i two bv four aon just run down to the lumber u have to hunt urd and bu v ne for one Thev don t have lumber ' : " V it he va Jl scientists fekt-- about pub: nce VS saal S no absolutely — “It has been said that a Russian menu is some of their best fiction" "It has been Mud that a Russian menu is some of their best fiction Restaurants have a very restricted entree list Service is horrendous sometimes nonexistent It is very difficult to be sested in a restaurant" According to Wyse the only time a Russian goes out to a restaurant t s to celebrate a big occasion and He he has saved a long time for itwedwould go out to celebrate a to ding for example and expect whole eat drink and dance the night All hough Russ an get by vuth iut the tv pe of hq jor stores we are familiar with there are nine stores which sell vodna a selection of wine and cognac according to vse "Beer is something sitting n a r00 gallon drum on a sidewalk somewhere with about 20 glasses nearbv on a table "The government is promoting beer to combat excessive use of vodka" he said "The thing that I found the hardest to understand was the lack of similarity between our country and theirs As our rival as a world to be more power I expected them like us than they are" Wyse said Y “They’re off the putting military” — pulling wealthand it in the off the wealth of Thev're pulling it into their country and putting the military There is no inside running water on farms villages or in the older sections of tow ns ' 'Verv tew people have cars and unless you know someone you have to place your order five years in advance They are very expenv se said sive" V is However mass transportation good in Russia with buses trams ferry s and railroads according to Wyse "Medical service is very poor You see a lot of people who obviously had received crude medical treat- ment Corrective surgery is "The one hospital we looked at had old beds the windows were open it was crowded and it looked like something out of the 1930s” Wyse said "However if you were high in the Communist Party you would get excellent medical treatment-almo- st on a par with the V said S' he have “youthewould doctor for to bribe high a quality operation” "Although medical service is supposed to be free you would have to bribe the doctor for a high quality opera tion "There are very few telephones in homes except in bigger cities To place a call you go to a central office order a phone call and wait "Once you get on the phone you have to keep putting money in every few seconds and the connections are usually bad The system is rather primitive'' according to Wyse "I think what I saw in Rostov was representative of the Soviet Union I traveled quite extensively in the western part of Russia two years prior to this trip" Wyse said |