Soviet Union: Soviet Union Press Comment on UK

A file containing documents relating to comments on the United Kingdom in the Soviet media. Subjects covered in the file include the Soviets' firm stand against colonialism and for Zimbabwean independence; great Soviet interest in the situation in Northern Ireland, whilst deploring the "mindless violence" of the terrorists; a more friendly tone adopted to coincide with the visit to Moscow by the British prime minister, Harold Wilson; and regular coverage of British economic woes. Other subjects discussed in the file include Soviet interest in the British referendum on membership of the European Economic Community and the divisions that it provoked in British politics and society; the re-emergence of the defector Donald Maclean under the pseudonym "S. Modzayevskii", a Soviet expert on Britain; an attack on the British Conservative politician Reginald Maudling on Moscow Radio; and Soviet coverage of the thirty-fourth congress of the Communist Party of Great Britain.