Word: izvestia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaper Cinema warned Russian moviemakers that they "must be faithful to the principles of Bolshevik partisanship in art," while Izvestia turned its attention to dance bands (see Music...
...Russians, busy cleaning house on the political levels (see FOREIGN NEWS), found time to cock an ear at the subject of Chattanooga Choo Choo and related items of sub-basement culture. They were not amused. Moscow's mighty Izvestia, whose nods and scowls are promptly imitated by all right-thinking bureaucrats, scowled at "dzhaz...
...Izvestia frowned particularly at a jazzy comrade named Eddy Rozner, who leads the Government-sponsored State Jazz Orchestra of White Russia, and is one of the hottest of the Soviet Union's not-so-hot bandsmen. His band is one of the six most popular in the U.S.S.R., ranks with Leonid Utesov and his "Merry Lads" who go in for such literal stunts in showmanship as mounting the drummer on a massive 20-ft. high stand built like a drum...
...Said Izvestia last week: "A complete lack of ideas, low professional culture, bad taste-these are characteristics of the band. . . . Homemade wit and a vulgar musical stew . . . fills nearly all the program. . . . Perhaps this can be tolerated in forgotten places of western Europe, but not on the Soviet stage...
...Soviet Foreign Office, delivered a significant lecture in which he declared 1) that Zionism was an imperialist-capitalist campaign to set up a "bourgeois state" in Palestine, 2) that Zionism lacked the support of the "Jewish masses" and 3) that Palestine belonged to the Arabs. Meanwhile, Radio Moscow and Izvestia continued their efforts to rouse both Arabs and Jews against British imperialism...