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stith-s. remains prone to harvest failures which can shake the This shift took place in tense atmosphere in the Soviet mid-1930s, and returned to this tactic in August, 1939.

After these years of demoralization and defeats during which, allegedly, socialism was being built in the Soviet Union, the Second World War broke out, bringing many new sufferings for the working class.

The attack on the Soviet Union begun on June 21, 1941, and the events which followed it, showed the real depth of the bureaucracy's crisis.

In many areas of the country, notably in the Ukraine, many peasants greeted the German invaders as liberators, hoping to get their revenge for the imposition of collectivization a decade or so before. might have supplied supplied the trac- German which tors to modernize Soviet agriculture if the Comintern had pursued a different policy, supPor the Panzer divisions phich penetrated deep into the workers' state.

The catastrophic defeat of the German working class, attributable directly to the policy imposed on the Communist Party by Stalin and the Soviet bureaucracy, thus brought down a whirlwind about their heads.

The courage and sacrifice of the Soviet working class, with its 20 million dead, and not the genius of Stalin or the bureaucracy, made it possible to throw back and defeat German imperialism.

The 40th anniversary of the collectivization drive provides an opportunity to insist upon the disastrous character of Stalin's policy.

The legacy of forced collectivization still lays heavy on the Soviet economy.

The agrarian problem has not been solved and bureaucracy is incapable solving it.

The whole 40 years' history of collectivized agriculture refutes the claims of the adherents of the theory of 'socialism in one country' CINEMA —and endless parade of illu-• sion and romance and escape.

You sat in the dark and dissolved with the celluloid.

Then later, "bunking in' through the back door, seeing the picture through twice and reeling out into the evening with a blinding headache; accosting strangers for the A's -'Will you take me in, please?'-the battleground of Saturday morning at the Granada ('We are the Granadeers'); the screams, the boos, the punch-ups, the beleagured ice-cream girl innocently providing ammunition with the 9.00 a.m. On Christmas Day In The Morning: Carols. 9.30 A Spoonful of Sugar from Stoke Mandeville Hospital. 10.00 News and Weather. 10.05 Tom and Jerry. 10.15 The Doctors. 10.35 Christmas Morning Service from St. George's Chape Harris and Windsor Castle. 11.45 Rolf children from Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton, Surrey. 12.30 p.m. Royal Family: documentary. 2.15 Top Of The Pops 69 part one. 3.00 Billy Smart's Circus Spectacular.

4.10 Disney Time: Julie Andrews introduces scenes and characters from her favourite films. 5.00 Cinderella: pantomine.

6.30 The Main News and Weather.

6.40 Save The Children:

10.15 a.m. Play School. 10.35 Christmas Morning Service from St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. 11.45 'Kyoto': Film involving the indestructible elements of Japanese culture of which Kyoto is the spirit. 12.30 p.m. Royal Family: documentary. 2.15 Chronicle: The Fate Of The Armada. 3.00 The Royal Ballet: "The Sleeping Beauty', Acts 1, 2 and 3. 5.25 News Summary. 5.30 Call My Bluff.

6.00 The Price Of Fame: or Fame at any Price.

Georgie Fame and Alan 6.45 "The Paladins of Palermo'.

From the Sicilian Teatro dei Pupi. Puppet Theatre.

7.10 Children Talking :

That Christmas Feeling.

reamers wake empty cartons that whizzed through the air, arced in the projection beam and thudded against the screen; the furtive drags at the early Woodbine in the front row when the match seemed to explode like a cartridge attracting for sure the attention of every adult eye in the place; and then in the period of Marilyn Monroe, Rock Hudson and all-American Doris Day (I never liked her) in the back row nervously sliding what inevitably became a cramped left arm round the stiff shoulders of the latest date.

6.45 8.15 9.15 11.15 12.05 e.0s thi 10.25 11.15 11.16 Christmas Night With The Stars:

Stars • from BBC Light Entertainment in 1969.

The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show. 'McLintock':

Western with John Wayne. Tony Bennett and The Count Basie Orchestra. a.m. And Was Made Black: A look at modern 'incarnation'.

legional programmes as BBC-1 except t the following times:

WAntonio Vivald™09-10.35 Antonio 'Dolig. 11.45-12.25 p.m. The Selfish Giant. 12.25-12.30 p.m. Cartoon Carnival.

Scotland: 6.30-6.35 Jesus:

The story of his through the eyes of young generation.

News and Weather.

Bird's Eye View :

Beside the Seaside by Sir John Betjeman, an aerial tour of the English seaside.

This Colourful Year Of Sport :

Henry Longhurst looks back on the highspots and lowspots of sport in 1969. Barbra Streisand entertains and causes A Happening in Central Park. News Headlines.

The Day They Robbed The Bank Of England' (film).

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These memor: memories, sentimen- ıtimental, nostalgic, bi but irreversioly rersibly my life, haunt every cinema I go into.

It came as a shock to me when I was in Cuba a few years ago.

A number of young artists had assembled an exhibition of underdevelopment.

You walked through something like a maze, a construction of corridors and passages and in every corner displayed in their true light were all the images I have described above and others too, juke boxes, Cadillacs, hamburgers, clips of Merry Morning: Leslie Crowther at a party for children in Seacroft Hospital, Leeds. 11.30 'Moonfleet' with Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood and Jon Whiteley. Smuggling and treachery on an ancestral estate. 1.00 p.m. Kelvin Hall Circus. 2.00 This Is Tom Jones with Judy Collins, David Frye, Millicent Martin, the Treorchy Male Choir and The Mike Sammes Singers. 3.00 'Petticoat Pirates' with Anne Heywood and Charlie Drake. Wrens steal a Royal Navy frigate. Bernie 'Aladdin': Mike and Winters, Jack Douglas, Jimmy Logan, Joset Locke, Peter Vernon REGIONAL I.T.V CHANNEL: 10.15 a.m. London. 11.30 Protessionale is Featuriami Tas, Andrew Faulds. 1.00 _p.m. London. 3.00 "With A Little Help From My Friends'. 3.55 Chez Oscar. 4.10 Crossoads. 4.35 London. 9.30 Feature Film: Term Of Trial' with Laurence Olivier and Simone Signoret. Trial (con News. 10.45 'Term Of (continued). 12.05. Whicker In Europe. 12.35 a.m. Weather.

WESTWARD. As Channel except at following times: 9.30 a.m. Cinema's Musical Special. 4.00 12.30... The aius Honeybun Show. a.m. Faith Tarzan movies and finally Vietnam, the cold destructive indifference of bullets.

The connection was graphically and eloquently made.

There were all the myths of my childhood seen as images of oppression, of exploitation, of wars and suffering.

And it was my culture, my dreams, my fantasies.

This is, what we absorb, cherish, grow up on, feel nostalgic about.

And we have a clear built-in response to it.

I THOUGHT about all this when I was seeing 'John and Mary', starring Mia Farrow and Dustin Hoffman and directed by Peter Yates.

For me there was something compulsive and irresistible about it.

Two marvellous performances going through the rigmarole and anxiety of establishing a relationship together.

It had all the simplicity of the dream-problems of life, of violence, of degradation, exploitation, humiliation, the genocide in Vietnam were all absent.

Yet they were produced side Irom ITALsuccessful comedy shows.

The Benny Hill Show. 'Rohin and the Seven METALS Hoods':

With Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. Chicago gangsters in the 1920s.

'Robin' continued.

Whicker In Europe:

Alan Whicker meets Count Robert-Jean de Vogue, a French tycoonaristocrat once condemned to death. 12.15 a.m. What Was He Like?

Down To 00 4.10 Croad 6-35 London.

London.

YORKSHIRE: 8.15 a.m. Carols For Everyone. 9.05 The New Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn. 9.30 London. 11.30 'Who's Minding The Store?' with Jerry Lewis. Young man falls in love with the boss's daughter. 1.00 p.m. London. 3.00 It's Great To Be Young' with John Mills, Cecil Parker, Jeremy Spenser and Dorothy Bromley. Comedy musical. 4.35 London. 9.30 Whicker In Europe: Whicker meets Count Robert-Jean de Vogue. 10.00 'Donovan's Reef' with John Wayne, Lee Marvin and Dorothy, Lamour. Comedy adventure. 10.30 News and Weather. 10.40 'Donovan's Reef' (part two). midnight Leonardo: story of Leonardo da Vinci.

GRANADA:_ 8.15 Christmas Cl.ols The Long, Dest Arnaz. trailey- 9.05 Joe 90. 9.30 London.

Lucille Ball and moon couple and a gigantic trailer. 1.00 p.m. London. 3.00 "Sands Ot The Desert' with Charlie Drake. Meek travel agent goes to the desert. 4.35 London.

TYNE TEES: 8.45 a.m. Christmas In HMS Calliope. 9.30 London. 11.30 Feature Film: 'Call Me Bwana'. 1.00 p.m. London. 3.00 Feature Film: •Treasure Island'. 4.35 London. 12.15 a.m. A Message For Christmas.

SCOTTISH: 8.25 a.m. Moderator's Christmas Message. 8.35 Carols From Kirkgate. 9.05 Joe 90. 9.30 London. 11.30 The New Adventures of Superman. l2 noon Skippy. 12.30 p.m. Crossroads. 1.00 London. 3.00 "With A Little Help From My Friends'. 4.00 Peter And The Time Machine. 4.05 High Living. 4.35 London. 12.15 a.m. Late Call.

GRAMPIAN: 9.05 a.m. The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 9.30 London. 11.30 Feature Film: 'Treasure Island'. 1.00 p.m. London. 3.00 With A Little Help From My Friends', George Martin presents. 4.00 The Moderator's Christmas Message. 4.10 Crossroads. 4.35 London.

by side by the same culture of American imperialism.

In the dark we follow the dream, cherish it, even long for it, for this world that has simple priorities, simple problems, and in a way in this yearning all sorts of yearnings in ourselves are invoked.

In spite of the pap, the pop culture, the naive romanticism, there is a reminder of something else, of our own desires which even the bleak indifference of the streets, or the shrill barbarities of the headlines in the newspapers cannot really dispel.

For it is part of that striving for man to achieve something else, some greater humanity, some closer understanding between himself and others, howprimitive or crude the form.

Hollywood has churned out its paying opiate for decades My generation weaned on it, grew up on it was deeply affected by it.

La part its naked propaganda for the capitalist system eludes the grasp of it manipulators and makers.

In spite of its spinning of commercial dreams unreality, get-rich opulence of Cinderella, from rags to riches, at the same time it presents a world so patently