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...Soviet press is thousands of town, village and factory papers, shop wall newspapers, group publications for trade unions, the Party, youth, the Army. But most important are the three big Moscow dailies, Pravda, Izvestia, Red Star, and two magazines, Crocodile and War and the Working Class...
...Kremlin Line. Izvestia (News) is the official Government organ, as such is scarcely distinguishable from Pravda. On a given day it will carry with Pravda, an identical Stalin prikaz and an identical svodka in the same type and positions. When there is no Stalin Order, Izvestia and Pravda fill their two left columns with a peredovitsa (leading editorial...
When there are long Government documents to record, Izvestia produces some extraordinary issues. Example: during the last meeting of the Supreme Soviet, Izvestia reported proceedings and the complete text of Viacheslav Molotov's speech in all 16 major languages of the Soviet Republics. Since it speaks for the Government...
...Izvestia cannot be the vehicle for "unofficial" attacks on foreigners such as Zaslavsky's, or for such items as the Cairo "separate peace" rumor that recently perturbed the Allied world (TIME, Jan. 31). When Izvestia called the Vatican "pro-Fascist" (TIME, Feb. 14), it presumably spoke with the full weight of the Government. This is one of the few clues by which confused foreigners seeking to read the Stalin mind can decide what is "official" and what "unofficial" in the Soviet press. In general, U.S. correspondents say, Soviet editors are now free to report routine domestic news without consulting...
...Since all Russians get military training, all correspondents have military rank. Most of Red Star's are majors, who wear no insignia to distinguish them as newsmen. Red Star's star correspondent is greying Ilya Ehrenburg, 53, whose dispatches are frequently cabled to the U.S. Pravda and Izvestia also run his highly colored, hate-filled dispatches...