YESTERDAY AND TODAY (MASS MEDIA ABOUT WOMEN)

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"The Communist Party of the Soviet Union is greatly concerned with improving the labour and everyday life conditions of women. 'The Party's policy,' runs the CC CPSU Report to the 24th Party Congress, 'consists in creating new opportunities for women in both upbringing their children and in taking a more active part in the public life, for their rest and education, and for bringing them into a closer contact with cultural values. Long Live Soviet Women, active builders of a communist society!'"
("Moskovskaya Pravda", March 3, 1972)
"A devoted worker and a public activist, the Soviet woman has always been and is the primary educator of our successors. The women are raising a healthy and cheerful young generation, surrounding them with care and love and enveloping them in their maternal warmth; they are istilling in them the best features of Soviet Man-devotion to communism, a lofty consciousness, love of work, an all-consuming love of the Motherland and a profound sense of internationalism. On behalf of all our people, we express a deep gratitude to you, women- mothers, for your everyday painstaking and noble activity, for your loving maternal heart, for your tireless efforts in consolidating the family!"
("Trud", March 8, 1972)
"The emancipation of women, their social liberation was going on in parallel with building a new life: the socialist restructuring of the economy, the transformations in the cultural sphere and the establishment of socialist democracy."
("Moskovskaya Pravda", March 8, 1972, Valentina Tereshkova)
"It is high time to send such phrases as 'the weaker' and 'the stronger' sex to an archeology museum. The Soviet women have proved that the fair sex may be even cosmonauts. Though women and men differ in their physical characteristics, nobody would try to prove in good faith that woman's intellectual powers are inferior to those of man. Moreover, I am sure that some women are better developed and better educated than certain representatives of my sex. I am convinced that we could have escaped many wars, massive slaughters and cataclysms, if women-the wives and mothers-were entrusted with the resolution of the entangled contradictions."
("Komsomolskaya Pravda", March 7, 1975, Martti Larni)
"I am a builder by trade. And, both as a builder and a woman, there's nothing I cherish more than peace at the borders of our Motherland and peace across the world. That is why the struggle for peace, for the freedom and independence of nations, which is being translated into life by the CC CPSU, by its Politburo, led by Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, is consonant with the most ardent hope of all women on the globe, of all people of the good will."
("Trud", March 8, 1972)

"Russia is losing its positions in resolving the women's question at an amazing speed. Women cannot give birth to children because of their fear of the future, because of the scarcity of the material means. The hunger actions and the participation in strikes ... our women do not wish to turn into dumb slaves."
("Pravda", March 7, 1996)
"The feminist movement is one of the most dynamic in this country. The Ministry of Justice has officially registered some 400 women's organizations, dealing with the most diverse social problems, and the fact in itself testifies to the expansion of women's public activity."
("Trud", May 29, 1996)
"Over 50 per cent of the unemployed women are busy raising their underaged children, including 6 percent of single mothers. Today, 1.2 million women in Russia are employed on the jobs, not satisfying the sanitary-hygienic norms; 620,000 work under the noise and the ultrasound, and over 60,000-under a high vibration."
("Pravda", March 14, 1996)
"The ideal of women's equality is a product of the fundamental ideology of the barracks socialism, one of its major Utopias." ("Argumenty i facty", May 1996, Igor Bestuzhev-Lada)
"Woman is in parts a human being."
("Argumenty i facty", May 1996, Leonid Zhukhovsky)
... the sexual 'exploitation' of women has turned into a regular industry all over the world; by the money it brings in, it is second only to the narcobusiness and to the trade in weapons. These data were made public at the world colloquium on the problems of violence against women, held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris."
("Trud", March 7, 1996) "
... but now the Centrizbircom has offered no opportunity to a single woman to cross the road of any man. So men may sleep in peace. There is a ceiling, above which no woman can jump. In all evidence, you may claim to be a Deputy, but never-the President. The male subconscious is adamant on this account: 'Now look what she is after! But this is really the limit!'" ("Argumenty i facty", May 1996, Galina Starovoitova)


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