Word: izvestia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet press is thousands of town, village and factory papers, shop wall newspapers, group publications for trade unions, the Party, youth, the Army. But most important are the three big Moscow dailies, Pravda, Izvestia, Red Star, and two magazines, Crocodile and War and the Working Class...
...Kremlin Line. Izvestia (News) is the official Government organ, as such is scarcely distinguishable from Pravda. On a given day it will carry with Pravda, an identical Stalin prikaz and an identical svodka in the same type and positions. When there is no Stalin Order, Izvestia and Pravda fill their two left columns with a peredovitsa (leading editorial...
When there are long Government documents to record, Izvestia produces some extraordinary issues. Example: during the last meeting of the Supreme Soviet, Izvestia reported proceedings and the complete text of Viacheslav Molotov's speech in all 16 major languages of the Soviet Republics. Since it speaks for the Government...
...Izvestia cannot be the vehicle for "unofficial" attacks on foreigners such as Zaslavsky's, or for such items as the Cairo "separate peace" rumor that recently perturbed the Allied world (TIME, Jan. 31). When Izvestia called the Vatican "pro-Fascist" (TIME, Feb. 14), it presumably spoke with the full weight of the Government. This is one of the few clues by which confused foreigners seeking to read the Stalin mind can decide what is "official" and what "unofficial" in the Soviet press. In general, U.S. correspondents say, Soviet editors are now free to report routine domestic news without consulting...
...Next Best Thing." Said an Allied diplomat: "This is the next best thing to giving us bases." Moscow's tone was tough and belligerent. The Government's Izvestia said that Japan had promised to cancel the Sakhalin concession early in 1941, failed to keep her word. Said Izvestia scornfully: there were some Japanese politicos who had bet on Hitler's victory, "but the Red Army's successes and the developing war operations of our allies have played their role. A sobering up had to come...