Word: izvestia
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...different from the crowd is a laudable ambition, but not at the expense of a fact. Every publication in the world, including Pravda, Izvestia and Red Star, calls the commander of the First White Russian Army Marshal Grigori Zhukov. TIME alone insists on Georgi...
...Marshal's full name is Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov. Pravda, Izvestia and Red Star, which rarely, if ever, use first names, call him G. K. Zhukov. Foreign correspondents in Moscow, stumped by the G. K. when Zhukov first made important war news, decided to call him Gregory, have more or less stuck to (or been stuck with) it since...
Snapped the Army & Navy Journal impatiently: it is high time for Russia to help her Allies with a "second front" in Poland. Quick as an echo last week came the reply of Russia's own army journal, Red Star: such talk bears "the Goebbels trademark." Izvestia chimed in: "Small-caliber strategists. . . ." Russia's mighty Pravda (circulation: 2,000,000) had already paid its blunt respects: "This journal looks ugly...
While foreign observers speculated that Voroshilov might be sent abroad as a diplomat; or to Siberia to head Russia's Far Eastern armies, the Kremlin said nothing. All that most Russians knew was that little announcements of this portentousness do not appear inconspicuously in Izvestia without a reason...
From a five-line announcement on the back page of Moscow's Izvestia, Russians learned last week that Marshal Klementi ("Klim") Voroshilov, 63, had been "relieved of his duties as a member of the State Committee of Defense." Into his job stepped Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin, 49. Bulganin had risen slowly in the Soviet hierarchy. He had been a textile worker, organizer of city Soviets, mayor of Moscow, a member of the Supreme Soviet, vice chairman of the Council of People's Commissars. Neither a soldier nor a diplomat by training, he was both a general and Soviet representative...