Word: lazebnik
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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...Izvestia, or indeed, for the Soviet press as a whole. Each day, it spews 57 million copies of 7,686 papers across the land. Identical in size-18½ in. by 23½ in., four to six pages-all are of such a numbing editorial sameness that E. A. Lazebnik, deputy director of propaganda for the party Central Committee in the Ukraine, was moved in 1956 to complain with singular bluntness: "If one were to conceal the names of newspapers, it would be almost impossible to tell which is which...