Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seven Lines in Pravda. But the big tip-off that all was not well with Kruglov came recently with the report that six former NKVD interrogators had been tried and executed for the murder of Ordzhonikidze, who in 1937 was said to have died naturally. Last week a seven-line paragraph on the back page of Pravda announced that Kruglov had been "released"' and would be replaced by Nikolai P. Dudorov, a little-known bureaucrat with Khrushchev connections...
Only in agriculture does the Soviet Union confess great weakness. The new plan that so confidently ticks off industrial goals discloses no figures for past food production, and Pravda admits that the agricultural goals were not fulfilled. But the new plan demands 100% greater productivity on collective farms by 1960, which Western specialists think is an impossible target. "This new and dangerous stage in the attempt to assimilate Soviet agriculture," says the London Observer's Edward Crankshaw, "can mean nothing less than an unspoken declaration of war on the mass of the peasants...
...central base of operations and traveled from there to the different libraries in Russia and Central Asia. He effected agreements with the two largest libraries in the USSR, the Lenin Library in Moscow (the Soviet equivalent of the Library of Congress), which will now send back issues of PRAVDA to the U.S., and the public library in Leningrad...
...making a profit is shown by Jack Graham, who blew up his mother and a plane for the insurance.") They rapped U.S. TV for showing too many commercials ("Only a stone sphinx could stick to one of these performances to the very end"). But they gave readers of Pravda, Izvestia and other leading Soviet journals the friendliest, most appreciative view of the U.S. since the wartime alliance. Russians, long accustomed to trite fictions about hungry armies of U.S. unemployed, read such items...
...Pravda Boris Polevoy rhapsodized: "What we saw was unusually attractive and interesting. Even knowing well the magnitude of technical thought of American engineers, it is difficult to imagine the 102-story Empire State Building without seeing it. One can dispute whether such high buildings are needed, but one cannot help admiring the boldness of the planners and the golden hand of the workers. [There is] the bridge of many kilometers that hangs like iron lace over the bay connecting San Francisco and Oakland; the Ford factory near Cleveland, where you hardly see any workers in shops that produce eight-cylinder...