Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow, last week, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda almost blew a gasket over George Messersmith, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina. It charged that Messersmith had told American Legionnaires in Buenos Aires that a Russo-American war was inevitable, that he was trying to get Argentines, regardless of "ideology or past sins," into a bloc on the side of the U.S. In his best diplomatese, Ambassador Messersmith denied having made the statements. But Pravda could have saved its breath. If there ever were a Russo-American war, there would be little doubt which side anti-Communist Argentina would...
...Komsomolskaya Pravda (Communist Youth's Truth) one B. Dairedzhiev last week blasted the magazine Oktyabr (October) for "bourgeois sentimentality." He particularly singled out a story called "Comrade Anna," about a Soviet family whose happiness was blighted when the father fell in love with another woman...
...Communist paper print an article entitled "Allow Us to Err"? A newspaper in the Ukraine, where the new Soviet purge is at its peak, dared to do so last week. "Absurd," thundered Pravda. "This theory of the right to err really means . . . the right to be free from criticism. . . . Workers' officials who are unable to review their work critically are unable to go forward and are cowards and provincials...
Even fairy tales were under attack. Pravda blasted two children's magazines for printing "nonsensical fairy tales, which take the youthful reader out of the realm of reality or distort the truth about the Soviet Union." Instead, said Pravda sternly, they should acquaint "young readers with the problems of life and the struggle of our Socialist fatherland...
...Pravda hurried to Molotov's defense. Said the official organ of the Soviet Government: Byrnes is a "provincial prince" who "forgot he [was] not at a meeting in the State Department on the affairs of Panama and Honduras, where he could remove his coat and put his feet on the table...