Word: izvestia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dictator Mussolini snub and degrade General Nobile? What about Titina, the General's little, yapping fox terrier bitch? Why wasn't she eaten? Is bitch eating worse than cannibalism? Russia. Moscow and Leningrad saw redder than usual, last week, as the great Communist newspapers Pravda ("Truth") and Izvestia ("News'") flayed "these Fascist swine!" An editorial in Pravda-whose editor is Nikolai Bukharin, closest associate of Dictator Josef Stalin (see RUSSIA)-keynoted significantly thus: "Here in Russia we know the true meaning of the word comrade. Among the Fascisti it means every man for himself." Copied from Pravda...
Finally the official attitude of the Soviet State toward Afghanistan was discreetly set forth by Foreign Minister Georges Tchitcherin in a long editorial which he contributed to Izvestia. Naturally Comrade Tchitcherin omitted to mention the matter of subsidies (bribes) which have been paid to King Amanullah at various times by both Great Britain and Russia. Nor did the Foreign Minister allude to arrangements with His Majesty which have occasionally furthered the infiltration of Soviet agitators through Afghanistan into India. Such matters are not for the press. But Comrade Tchitcherin did stress in able and complimentary fashion the vital importance...
Russia The Moscow Izvestia, which-like the Moscow Pravda-is a great organ of the Bolshevik autocrats, printed a tirade against Britain, charging that unscrupulous country with organizing an anti-Bolshevik League of Goverments in Europe. The article, signed by Editor Stocklov, said...
...Moscow appealing for the lives of the professors "in the name of civilization and humanity and on behalf of the Government and public opinion in France." The Bolshevik said M. Poincaré was tactless and accused him of unwarrantable interference in Russian domestic affairs. The Soviet official journal Izvestia said with due sarcasm: "Where were the humanitarian feelings of the French Government when Russia was surrounded by enemies and the Russian people starving...
...Izvestia and the Pravda, Moscow Communist journals, the latter of which is the official organ of the Communist Party, referred to British "baseless insinuations," to "countless Colonial slaves," and berated British Premier Macdonald for "opposing the Hindu revolutionaries" and for "taking a false step in mentioning Russia's debts...