Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still later the Ogpu was given yet another name to make it seem more like a normal European Ministry of Interior, became the Commissariat of Interior, under the reigning Ogpu chief, smudge-mustached, pudgy-fingered Comrade Genrikh ("Henry") Grigorevitch Yagoda. Moscow's official daily Pravda ("Truth") hailed the terrorist clique in its new role as Commissariat of Interior thus: "Long has the Ogpu worn a halo formed of the deep love of tens of millions of workers and peasants both in our Soviet land and abroad!"* Last week Comrade Yagoda's Commissariat of Interior became the Commissariat General...
After poking Communist fun for 18 long years at the "sob stories" and "personality stuff" of Capitalist journalism, Moscow's two great official newsorgans, Pravda ("Truth") and Izvestia ("News") went abruptly into intellectual reverse last week, came out simultaneously with a personality sob story about Dictator Joseph Stalin and his Old Mother...
Since it is Bolshevik dogma that only the decadent bourgeois are curious about statesmen's private lives, since Soviet leaders usually see in print only their last names with no personal details whatsoever, astonishment was the reaction of most Russians last week to the Pravda & Izvestia story headed...
...workers and peasants who achieved the great Socialist Revolution dreamed of creating an army which would stand like an impassable wall," explained Pravda. "The Red Army today is such a power that it not only is capable of defeating any invader but can destroy a hostile army on its own soil...
Grooming popular Defense Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov for his expected appointment as "Marshal of the Soviet Union," Pravda called Klim "the personification of a true Marshal of the Revolution...