Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aside to one of his top aides a few weeks ago Tito said: "The Russians are getting difficult again. This time we've got to swallow it." Western observers, to whom the remark leaked, guessed what Tito was talking about: a few carping lines in Moscow's Pravda drawing attention to the fact that trials are still being held for repatriated pro-Stalin Yugoslavs, hundreds of whom Tito is said to have jailed. A later report that cropped up in Warsaw-that the Soviet Central Committee was circulating a letter describing Tito as no Marxist-Leninist...
...shown some impatience with Tito's propaganda in the satellite states, where he encourages local Communist autonomy in line with the "many roads to socialism" thesis. His jailing of Moscow-repatriated Yugoslav Communists who took the Cominform side in his quarrel with Stalin has drawn a rebuke from Pravda. Did Soviet leaders think the time had come to cut Tito down to size...
...Russia's top leaders. At a diplomatic cocktail party, Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov held the closest thing yet to a Western-style press conference. Instead of the usual Kremlin evasiveness, even at such informal occasions, Shepilov talked frankly with correspondents, did his best to answer serious questions. ILx-Pravda Editor Shepilov, who likes to boast that "I'm a journalist myself," also had another change of heart. After recently bitterly criticizing the U.S. press (it ought to be muzzled), he was asked if he had any complaints this time. Smiled Shepilov: "No. None whatsoever...
...Presidium bosses and their personal disagreements with one another. Says the Times's Welles Hangen: "Soviet censorship is becoming less severe, but it remains arbitrary and capricious." For example, when the ouster of Internal Affairs Minister Sergei Kruglov was revealed in a back-page item in Pravda, the Times bureau filed a story at 6 a.m. labeling Kruglov's successor as a Khrushchev man. It passed. That afternoon Hangen wrote a second-day story elaborating on the same theme. It was killed...
...Great Kremlin Palace to hear Premier Nikolai Bulganin deliver what was in effect a State of the Soviet Union message. They sat in their polished wood pews, drably dressed Baits and colorful Asians in skullcaps and shawls, gawking at the 8-ft. statue of Lenin and reading Pravda, hushing attentively while Bulganin pointed with pride to the nation's industrial output-up 12% over the first half of 1955-and viewed with alarm the disappointing performance of the coal and oil industries. He promised to reduce the number of women employed as heavy laborers, and eventually to abolish heavy...