Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Union, where most institutions are new, Pravda ("Truth") is one of the oldest (33 years). Last week the official daily organ of the Communist Party printed its 10,000th issue (and its first six-page number since wartime shortages cut it to four pages...
...three founders (see cut) are alive and doing well. Pravda's first managing editor, Viacheslav Molotov, went to work under Nikolai Lenin's decree: the press was to be "propagandist, agitator and organizer." It still is, although Pravda has long since changed from agitating agin the Government to agitating for, Another Pravda founder, Joseph Stalin, sees to that. It is also intensely nationalist, devotes scant space to news from outside Russia. (It was a day late reporting the Jap surrender...
Though Moscow's Pravda insisted angrily that no issues between the great powers were insoluble, distrust and tension grew. Molotov snapped to the Council of Foreign Ministers: "You would think I was accused and on trial...
...accepted governments friendly to Russia, yet welcomed a show of U.S. strength to break a Russian strangle hold. Contradictory doctrines lived side by side in the same countries, the same towns and even in the same individuals. (In Slovakia some Catholic priests were writing articles for Moscow's Pravda...
...Cried Pravda: "An obviously reactionary enterprise...