Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proceedings were dead secret, but the official Moscow paper Pravda laid down the new lines of action: 1) Communists will subordinate everything to resisting the forces of Fascism which are admitted to have seized the offensive. 2) Consequently in a war with Germany, Japan, Italy or other "Fascist" States, Communists will aid the opposing forces. 3) Explicitly the Democratic regimes of France and "small nations" are slated...
...Soviet press was quick to echo the gist of Stalin's speech last week. Announcing immediate plans for the construction of three planes just as big to be called Maxim Gorki II, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, the official Pravda cried...
...Soviet lines in 1934, with destruction of 4,500 cars, damage to 7,000 locomotive and 60,000 cars, "material loss" of 500 cars, damage to 7.000 locomotives and 60,000 cars, "material of 60,000,000 rubles and the deaths of "hundreds of persons." Editorialed the Party newsorgan Pravda next day: "The previous policy of concealing railway wrecks was wrong...
Last year another Big Red, Commissar for Heavy Industry Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, denounced "the fact that right now 450,000 carloads of manufactured goods are awaiting shipment in our warehouses for lack of rail transport!" Last week Pravda, careful not to blame anybody, grumbled: "The country can no longer allow backwardness in this vital link in our economic chain. The interests of Socialist construction, the interests of production and, last but not least, the interests of national defense demand a solution of the railroad problem this year and not later...
...Moscow the Press denounced the sitting business as "A BREACH OF INTERNATIONAL DECENCY," then printed all week furious threats to Japan, Germany and every other nation with which the Soviet Union might find itself at war. Roared Pravda, official organ of the Party: "History is working in our favor, and know ye, Mister Imperialist, that if you impose war on us we will fight, not on our territory, but on yours...