Thursday, February 14. 1980
University Daily Kansan
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Russian author says Soviet satire often well hidden
Did you hear the one about the new face powder Russian women use? It's called 'Ashles of lemn' ...
Telling a joke like that in the Soviet Union can get one's nose—even if it is powdered in trouble, according to Emil Draitser, a Russian author who spoke last night at the Union on "Contemporary Soviet Humor" Satire, Official and Underground."
Draitser, teaching Russian and completing his doctoral studies in Slavic literature. He also professional saturist in the Soviet Union for several years, working as a correspondent for the Soviet satirical journal, Crocodile.
Social workers help emergency room staff
Since emigrating to the United States in January 1975, Draftsler has published two books, "Contemporary Satire Satire," and "Deeply Laughter. Sweet Underground Humor."
A hospital emergency room tricksters victim, victims, car accident victims, and other problems, but for some people it is the only place they can seek counseling during the event.
But staffing emergency rooms with a social service during the evening is a valuable service, and staffs are needed to provide counseling or to contact relatives when patients are stranded or under siege.
Virginia Pigua, a graduate student who works in the evenings at Bell, said, "A lot of our students are not very well trained medical patients and doesn't have time to sit down and talk with someone who has been on duty."
"The community perceives the emergency room at a 24-hour crisis center, and the medical perception is as a treatment center for heart attacks or for trauma patients." The board of directors of Margaret Gwinn, director of social services at Bell-Memorial Hospital said last week.
call at home. A staff worker is always on back-up duty in case the student needs assistance.
Gwinn said that the important thing was to have someone in the emergency room to counsel patients through the night and recommend a community agency for future help.
Beaten wives, abused children or rape victims are the typical cases that the emergency room social workers must handle. Gwynn said.
The emergency room receives about a dozen cases a month and are related to sudden illness, injury or death in treatment, Gwinn said. The police bring in drunks or elderly people, who have no where to go.
For example, a rape victim has several reasons to report the rape, whether she reports the rape, whether she tells her family, finding a safe place to stay for the night and where she can get follow-up information.
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HE SAID "party feeling" in the Soviet Union provided guidelines for censors on what, or who, may be the butt of jokes.
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And, Draitser said, it was sometimes difficult to determine who was fair game for barbs.
Draitsier labeled drunkenness the "national tragedy number one" in the Soviet Union, with petty theft its second. However, he said, "This is not a case of domestic drug research into the causes of these vices."
He said although Soul censors tried to strike ambiguity—the very nature of satire—from humor, authors often were able to stifle a double meaning by the censor.
"There is no book of Who's Who in the world," says the knowing who you can touch in a salacious column. When you live in the Soviet Union, you see that almost nothing is nonexistent.
He said that when censorship of television programs was found necessary, "technical difficulties" were sometimes experienced during the unacceptable parts of the game.
But Draiser said a professional satirist soon learned what could be touched and what was off-hills. He said the party gaveission to criticize a limited circle of rules.
Despite this strict control of satire, Draisner said, the government often provided the satire itself, though it failed to realize the public laughed was哭.
"Double meaning became a literary weapon, and the object of hurts by censors," he said. "The reader has begun to sense, at it, and times find double meanings
"Nothing should darken the mood of our listeners."
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THE POLICY followed by Soviet radio, he said, was "smiles only."
But Draatser said Soviet authors and movie directors often found ways to circumvent strict Soviet censorship.
Draiser said that not only was there strict censorship of criticism, but that the Soviet news agency "partially informs, thus to inform" the public about the United States.
"real life in the Soviet Union is in much contrast to the life depicted in official brochures," Draitser said, "that the government makes its own satire."
given when the author had only the best of intentions."
"Even the revolution itself ceased to be worshipped as in the '60s,' he said.
He said there was growing disenchantment with the government, and that the Soviet people were "skeptical regarding any official undertaking."
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"Sometimes," Draitser said, "a movie director tries to hit at satire, but it is always with such timidity and such an eye toward the audience. As result, the hunt is understood only by him."
OTHER THINGS have ceased to be sacred, he said, citing a Russian joke about a drunken man trying to hail a cab. Apub in 2016, the plight of the drunk in the same plight, he pityed on the cold, wet man, and carried him home, realized it was a statue of Vladimir Nurdin.
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On the whole, Draiser said. Soviet censorship could be represented by the old anecdote telling of a national contest for a new radio program. He said, was 25 years in a concentration camp.
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