Word: izvestia
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...with batteries of klieg lights for the kill. Movie cameras recorded that Communist Alexei Rykov, who succeeded Nikolai Lenin as Soviet Premier (1924), wept in the dock of 21 prisoners as he awaited death, while the great Communist ideologist and "Heir of Lenin," Nikolai Bukharin, onetime editor of official Izvestia, stared dry-eyed at the floor. The, 21 did not know that, so far as could be ascertained last week, the only daily or weekly papers in the world whose editors expressed the opinion that justice was being done in Moscow were exclusively Communist papers of the Stalin faction. Very...
...Godless Vishinsky is misquoting. Judas received 30 pieces of silver. †Before the Revolution he and Lenin published in Vienna Pravda ("Truth"), today in Moscow the official organ of the Communist Party. In 1917 Bukharin was in the U. S. with Trotsky. In Moscow he was editor of Izvestia ("News"), official organ of the Soviet Government, from 1934 until his arrest last year, and as such was Stalin's official Spokesman...
...great age and snowy beard of Sergius did not save him from figuring in Pravda and Izvestia as "a participant in orgies who had disgraceful relations with nuns." Frail old Vitalius was put down for "wrecking, espionage and other subversive activities." The official newsorgan Gorkovskaya Kommuna affirmed that the Brotherhood of Sobriety, an organization of young Orthodox girls, was founded by church dignitaries to recruit young women to become the sweethearts of Army & Navy men and wheedle military secrets to be sold to Germany and Japan. One Orthodox bishop was described flatly as a "Japanese agent...
...second Five-Year Plan ended last week, and the Soviet Union entered 1938 by starting on a third. The Gosplan or State Planning Commission made last April the preliminary blanket announcement in Pravda and Izvestia that the second Five-Year Plan had been "over-fulfilled in four years and three months." and public celebrations took place throughout the Soviet Union. Economists of the embassies and legations in Moscow, who had seen this happen before, sat back and waited for the detailed official statistics on the second Five-Year Plan to be issued several months later...
Since each ballot was printed with two names (the name of a candidate for the lower house and the name of a candidate for the upper house of the Supreme Soviet), the Government newsorgan Izvestia claimed that two scratched votes equaled only one scratched ballot-that is, one voter who balked at voting for the candidates put up by Mr. Stalin's friends...