Word: izvestia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow, for instance, there are eight daily papers and each is supposed to represent a definite state organism. Pravda is the voice of the party's Central Committee; Izvestia, the organ of the Government. Red Star is the Army newspaper; Red Fleet, the Navy newspaper...
Since then, Stalin has become somewhat better known. Last week, all that Pravda and Izvestia printed on the end of Fordzonishko's father was: "A correspondent of Reuters Agency reports from Detroit the death of the well-known owner of automobile plants, Henry Ford...
Russia might stage an astute political retreat, while Communist propaganda would tap-tap on the U.S. conscience. Moscow indicated the line. Said Izvestia, in a bland and self-righteous editorial: "What is such monopolistic 'American responsibility' but a smoke screen for plans of expansion? Dilations to the effect that the United States is 'called upon to save' Greece and Turkey from expansion on the part of the so-called 'totalitarian states' are not new. Hitler also referred to the Bolsheviks when he wanted to open the road to conquests for himself...
Some sensitive souls insisted on thinking that the new U.S.-Canadian defense agreement (TIME, Feb. 24) was something it was not. Moscow's Izvestia said the agreement had "clearly aggressive characteristics." A Moscow radio commentator cried: "There are [U.S.] troops everywhere [in the Arctic], and in such places as ... Churchill they experiment with jet-propelled planes." Such sniping was not confined to Russia. Saskatchewan's socialist Agriculture Minister Isidore Nollet, U.S.-born and a U.S. veteran of World War I, complained that there were U.S. troops stationed at North Battleford, Sask., and that they should be told...
...Moscow does not look like a big rolling mill, which is the way Izvestia's writer described New York. Once you get outside the center of the city, it looks like the biggest village in the world. . . . The truth is, the town is a little big for its britches. When the Bolsheviks made it the nation's capital, the population jumped by hundreds of thousands. . . . There just isn't any place to put most of them without doubling up, so the family that has a room of its own is well...