Word: izvestia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ilya Ehrenburg, back in Russia after a ten-week journalistic junket through the U.S. and Canada, gave Izvestia readers an outsize report on America and Americans. Highlights: "Everything . . . is different - cities, trees and customs. . . . I have been to dinners and meetings. First every body hurriedly chews chicken, then orators make long speeches, then singers sing sentimental songs, then a priest collects money for some benevolent fund. . . ." Ehrenburg said that he ran into one group of "provincial dummies . . . convinced that with the help of Esperanto they could make the atomic bomb harmless." But he had great admiration for America...
...full texts of speeches, magazine and newspaper articles, Government handouts, technical and business reports, verbatim pickups from A.P., U.P., the New York Times. They need not bother to slant their stuff; Moscow takes care of that. But neither Moscow's " big-circulation tour-page dailies, like Pravda and Izvestia, nor any other Soviet paper prints much more foreign news than many small-town U.S. dailies...
...never really understood why there are always such long lines of people in front of the newspaper kiosks. Copies of Pravda and Izvestia are posled every-where for anyone to read. Observation ou the train, however, shows that newspapers provide not only the intellectual nourishment for the people, but wrapping, toilet and cigaret paper as well...
Trouble and confusion were rampant in Odessa. Moscow's lofty Izvestia sternly reported that city officials had taken to changing street names at the slightest provocation. Some of Odessa's streets now had three or four names, and not even the militia (police) knew its way about. The militia itself had sinned. It had changed the name of Troitskaya (Trinity) Street to "Street of the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Toilers' and Peasants' Militia...
...Izvestia, definitely not amused, snarled: "It is high time to do something about this kind of thing...