Word: izvestia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official government newspaper Izvestia commented, "so the words spoken by Stalin in his pre-election speech have practically seen their accomplishment...
...were made victims of personal interests and general self-praise." The magazine Leningrad has been suspended, the Writers' Union given a thorough shakeup. A million-ruble movie, The Monogrammed Diary, was spirited away without a trace, after one viewing by the Cinema Ministry. Even the prestigious, semi-official Izvestia was scolded for printing the news straight, leaving the reader "to grope his way through international problems without guidance...
...subject of Russian "dzhaz" [TIME, Sept. 2], I find myself quite in accordance with the bitter denunciation of Izvestia. I have obtained a Soviet recording made by this Rozner and the State Jazz Orchestra of White Russia. It is a mercilessly amputated version of the traditional Russian Christmas music. It conflicts with all reason that the government of any country could permit such an atrocity
Americans in Moscow, who have heard Eddy Rozner's dzhaz, were inclined to think that Izvestia had something there. Eddy's band has a good hot fiddler, a talented pianist, and an uncertain beat. Its arrangements, based on 5-&-10? store sheet music of U.S. hits which reach the U.S.S.R., is either imitative of U.S. jazz circa 1930, or unrecognizable...
...night of Izvestia's blast, Radio Moscow-which must not have read its daily paper very thoroughly-put on another half-hour of Eddy Rozner's band. Included in the program: a hepped-up version of the Volga Boat Song, a swing finale full of cracks at Russian grand opera...