"So after Brezhnev's visit to the USA, the CC adopted 'a broad program of propagandist measures' in which its strategy is reflected quite precisely. At an emergency meeting called by the CC for all leaders of 'Soviet public organizations and Soviet representatives in international democratic organizations,' the following instructions were issued 'regarding the purposes of their work under contemporary conditions, and also on questions of the development of links with public organizations and movements in the USA for strengthening our influence on broad circles of the American public' (24 July 1973*, St 88/1, pp. 7-8):
In all spheres of propaganda, expose the inadequacy of various forms of petit bourgeois leftist movements that have found favor among some young people in the capitalist world, the pointless-ness of the so-called 'rebellion of youth' unconnected with the liberating work of the proletariat, and attempts to ignore the real problems and contradictions of capitalist society. Stress that only socialism opens the way to the genuine liberation of the younger generation. Rebuff firmly 'technocratic' and other"