Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very few of the U. S. S. R.'s 170,000,000 inhabitants the Battle of Britain last week was a faraway thing-as faraway, but as interesting, as an unusual conjunction of planets. On the third and fifth pages of their Pravda or Izvestia, Muscovites who cared could read of the battle's progress, in dry little paragraphs like items of scientific rather than popular interest. Bigger news which those papers evidently expected to stir the proletariat were developments in the East, especially in the five central Asiatic republics. In this remote corner of Asia, where...
...Japan as a possible invader of Alaska. Russia's submarine base on the Komandorskie Islands off the Kamchatka coast (280 miles north of the Aleutians' tip) and its submarine and air base at Petropavlovsk, farther south, might still be regarded as defenses against Japan. And Pravda's recent sound-off against Alexander II's sale of Alaska for a "few paltry millions" might be so much wind & fury. But the Soviets have a flying base at East Cape on the North Siberian mainland, are building a new station on Big Diomede and both are guns that...
...Dictator also revived in the Red Army & Navy the ranks of "general" and "admiral,' titles Bolsheviks have associated previously with Tsarist times. "The reform," said Pravda, "although belated, constitutes a link in the chain of measures strengthening discipline of the armed forces. . . . The titles of general and admiral reflect clearly that the [Army & Navy] commanders have full authority. . . . The results of the Finnish and Far Eastern campaigns established their authority among the Red Army and the masses of the Soviet people...
Renamed for the composer were: a Moscow street, the Moscow symphony orchestra, a new Moscow concert hall, two music schools in towns where he once lived. Said Pravda: "He is the most beloved composer of the Soviet masses-he is the toilers' favorite." A monument was ordered built for Tschaikowsky in Moscow. At the Bolshoi Theatre a Tschaikowsky concert brought out the diplomatic corps, Foreign Commissar Molotov, War Commissar Timoshenko, ex-War Commissar Voroshilov-and Stalin...
...Bill Gropper married Bacteriologist Sophie Frankle. The two of them built their own nine-room stone house ("bourgeois as hell") at Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. Soon after their marriage they had a year in Russia, where Gropper worked briefly on Pravda (official organ of the Communist Party), learned to call electric lights "Lenin lamps," had a grand time. Gene, their elder boy, was born in Paris on the return trip. To the New Masses went a cartoon by Artist Morris Pass of the proud father wheeling Gene in a baby carriage. Caption: "Made...