Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Alma Ata, in the remote Soviet Socialist Republic of Kazakstan, came news last week that mountain-climbing members of the "Lokomotiv" sports club had discovered a new peak in the Zailisky Ala Tau range, near the Chinese frontier. They named it, reported Pravda, after the "prominent Negro singer and progressive public leader, Paul Robeson...
...Communist fatherland, Bolshevik bosses were also having trouble with men who coddled the worker. "Some managers," Moscow's Pravda whined, "are prone to show off their lavishness and kindness at the expense of the state, under the guise of awards and presents. They encourage all kinds of . . . soirées and banquets on any and every occasion-or even without any reason whatsoever...
...fact that Moscow frowns on modern art too (Pravda calls it "decayed, formalistic, bourgeois") gave Dondero no pause. He concluded his blast with the suggestion that U.S. artists be screened just as lawyers (and Russian artists) are: "Why should our highest art organizations have any different standard of membership than our bar associations? [For the bar] a candidate must pass the strict requirements of a character committee...
Writing in Pravda on Russian Navy Day last week, Soviet Admiral I. S. Yumashev gave the following account of the victory: "We faced the fresh, elite Kwantung Army and considerable Japanese naval forces based on Korea and the West Coast of Japan . . . The [Soviet] Pacific Fleet and the Amur Flotilla began a resolute offensive which ended in the complete routing of the enemy . . . We recovered Southern Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, which had always belonged to Russia,* and the Soviet forces entered Port Arthur. The Japanese beast of prey was forced to his knees; imperialist Japan capitulated...
...jibe with the photograph of the scene; in the picture, Voroshilov, not Malenkov, stood closest to Stalin. The discrepancy gave rise to subtle speculations: Voroshilov merely had the place of honor because it was he who was about to accompany the body to Sofia, but the fact that Pravda mentioned Malenkov's name first meant that the 47-year-old boss of the Communist Party organization was on his way up. Some watchers from afar were also disturbed by the fact that Molotov was missing from the scene; but his absence was not presumed to imply disgrace, because...