Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard Words. Promptly, Pravda lashed out in an editorial signed by K. Demidov, calling the former U.S. ambassador to Moscow and Paris "a liar...
...free. But the controlled Russian press has almost never said a harsh word about the U.S. Government. It has behaved with the same correctness toward Britain's Conservative Government. The Soviet press, however, never hesitates to exercise its claws on individual citizens of the big powers. Last winter Pravda kicked Wendell Willkie resoundingly in the pants and called him an "obedient speaking trumpet" (he had mildly ventured to state that there is a Polish question). Pravda also mauled New York Times Military Commentator Hanson Baldwin, called him "admiral of an ink pool" (Baldwin had said that Red Army advances...
Standing on the sea of shoes, Maidenek suddenly became real. It was no longer a half-remembered sequence from an old movie or a clipping from Pravda or chapters from a book by a German refugee living in Mexico City. The barbed wire had barbs which ripped flesh. The ashes on the big cabbages were the ashes of the brothers of the worn but pretty peasant women who had spoken to us that morning at Mass...
...made use of nearby Russian bases for delivering supplies in Warsaw, or why Bad the Russians themselves not given air supply to the Bor force? The answer was not immediately forthcoming but Moscow did have something to say about the politics of the situation. The Warsaw rebels, said Pravda, had been "foully deceived by a group of adventurous and political speculators of London emigré governments...
...Later Pravda's front page announced the arrival of Polish National Committee .delegates for talks with Premier Mikolajczyk. From liberated Poland to Moscow a Russian warplane flew Committee President Boleslaw Berut, Chairman Edward Osubka-Morawski, Vice Chairman Andrei Witos and Defense Chief General Michal Rola-Zymierski. A Red Army band and a guard of honor welcomed them. Chairman Osubka-Morawski made a speech. He too was smiling...