Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...different from the crowd is a laudable ambition, but not at the expense of a fact. Every publication in the world, including Pravda, Izvestia and Red Star, calls the commander of the First White Russian Army Marshal Grigori Zhukov. TIME alone insists on Georgi...
...Marshal's full name is Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov. Pravda, Izvestia and Red Star, which rarely, if ever, use first names, call him G. K. Zhukov. Foreign correspondents in Moscow, stumped by the G. K. when Zhukov first made important war news, decided to call him Gregory, have more or less stuck to (or been stuck with) it since...
...feminine colleague, Comrade N. Sergeeva of Pravda, was not so tolerant: "Can anything be concealed from the ubiquitous American press? Is it surprising that with the necessary . . . connections the correspondents of the American newspapers succeed fairly quickly in getting wind of what is being discussed at a closed conference? But to get wind of a subject does not mean truthfully reporting and explaining it. Every day, every hour the press . . . is full of assumptions, conjectures . . . provocation...
Before the week was out, Radio Berlin went back on the air. A Berlin edition of Pravda appeared...
...Russia was determined to find Hitler, dead or alive. Said Pravda: "Whether he escaped to hell, to the devil's paws, or to the arms of fascist protectors, still he is no more. We shall find out what really happened to him. And if he escaped, we shall find him, no matter where...