Jeeperski!

Russia's Communists dropped an official tear for capitalism's kids last week as the U.S.S.R. celebrated International Children's Day. "In the U.S.," intoned Pravda, "children are exploited to an unprecedented degree, but the Soviet government has removed for all time the waifs of the past."

But Russian youngsters had their troubles:

P: Little girls, reported the Literary Gazette, were complaining bitterly about the standardization of dolls in Soviet toy stores. 'All the dolls, they said, had exactly the same faces, hairdos and dresses. P: A new decree of Moscow's city fathers warned parents of all Bolshevik bobby-soxers, on pain of a $50 fine, to keep their children off the streets after 10 p.m in winter, 11 p.m. in summer. The decree forbade shopkeepers to sell the youngsters liquor or tobacco, and ordered the kids themselves to quit skating in the streets, to stop hitching rides on the outside of buses and streetcars, and to go only to movies listed officially as "suitable for children."

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