Show m Rock For lite ts in Russia By MELINDA POOLE is mainly an industrial city with lots of factories and technical and agricultural s and I went to the park our hotel in On the we were going to dance at the outdoor pavilion but we knew that after the Russians found out we were Americans to meet a lot of we would get THE ORCHESTRA was playing a waltz when we but the next tune was faster and we decided to rock and In less than 3 minutes all the people had made a big circle around us and began in time to the one boy in the crowd decided to practice what he had learned from American movies He grabbed me by the lifted me clear off my feet and began to throw me I was astonished in my The crowd was cheering and At last the music stopped and I was set down on my dizzy but which was more than I had and I went out followed by about most of them asking the rest We talked about everything from vacations and salaries to the political Gradually the crowd thinned We gave picture postcards with our addresses on them to the twenty or so that and received addresses in agreeing to meet them another IN THIS REGION there are 71 and There is really little difference between the for in neither is the land owned As I understand in the the land is owned by the government and the farmers are hired to cultivate like workers in a Tn the the land is the property of the farmers as a and all problems are taken care of by a council made up of the farmers 1700 people lived on the we were THEY GREW potatoes and They also had some The average wage is 80 rubles a They took us to the which was They had about 20 or 25 cows but only one milking We also went to the apple orchards and later to a nursery school run by the fa ers for their children THE NURSERY was Inside was another T A picture of Lenin frS in paper ruffles hung rT small table covered with On the table ft of freshly picked flowers On another day we went t kindergarten for the children workers in the There were They come in shifts group lives there one month S or 4 months a year oS day a week is visiting day parents are discouraged to com as it tends to interrupt the of the The cost depends on the ary of the parents the mum is the maximum Is a But no matter what they the children all receive the same treatment When we we had to put on white coats like All the directors wore them Then we saw a About 40 or 50 children marched into the small amphitheater and recited poems about Communism and Lenin and the and sang and The children asked us to dance with It may have been funny looking but both parties joyed it The children were dressed in a sort of uniform of white shirts and bloomer shorts in pastel They all wore little almost like that tied under their RUSSIANS THINK a lot of That same afternoon we went to the Children's Railroad The children run everything It's sort of an apprenticeship for becoming real Inside the between the windows were pictures of children some as some with dogs and some with The trip on the train was about a mile long through a park and some At the end of the line was another station flanked on either side by the usual pioneer statues of a boy and a she with a handkerchief raised in he with a bugle at his Then the second engine was attached to the former end of the trip and we started |