Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same disapproving view of him and his works as his most disapproving Victorian contemporaries ever did. For stooping to put on a brilliant performance of his entertaining An Ideal Husband, the famed Moscow Art Theater shivered under simultaneous critical broadsides from the 16-inch guns of Izvestia and Pravda...
...Pravda spoke in its own esoteric tongue. From the turgid depths of Marxist dialectics it dredged up the basic criterion for Soviet art: "The significance of the ideological and creative evolution of the Moscow Art Theater . . . consists in its recognition of partisanship...
...quick shift to the offense, Moscow accused Canadian Prime Minister King of launching an "unbridled anti-Soviet campaign . . . aimed at inflicting political harm on the Soviet Union." Echoed Pravda: "Mr. King barged out to give aid to Mr. Bevin who put the British Government into a difficult position with his speeches ... at the United Nations...
...rejoicings in the Moscow press over the virtues and glorious achievements of the Soviet Union, a foreigner on a gloomy Sunday morning cannot help contemplating with a heavy heart the imperfections and errors of the U.S. As evidence of the happy unanimity of electors in the U.S.S.R., the newspaper Pravda today points out that in the last U.S. presidential election only 48,000,000 of 60,000,000 persons qualified to vote exercised the franchise [and] 25,600,000 voted for the party in power...
...Last Sunday, according to official U.S.S.R. figures, 99.7% of the people qualified to vote in the U.S.S.R. actually did vote. And 99.18% of them voted for the Communist and nonparty bloc that is in power. Speculating on the reception abroad of the news . . . Pravda continues: 'It is not difficult to guess that the results . . . came as an extremely unpleasant surprise to those who had hoped for a weakening of the solidarity of the Soviet people and those who do not relish Soviet democracy...