Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...district of Kustanay in remote northern Kazakhstan, a Russian wrote a despondent note to Moscow's Pravda, and for its own reasons, Pravda decided to publish...
...Komsomolskaya Pravda, another complained: "The soil begins to dry . . . The cause is lack of manpower. Things are managed the wrong way. Seventeen-year-old girls from the city who have never held a pitchfork in their hands work in the hayfields, while two husky kolkhoz fellows just sit by the stove, drink vodka and tell funny jokes...
...mixture of discontent, of listless workers, of idle and broken machinery, of incoherent direction, demanded action in Moscow. One day last month Pravda's lead article criticized the slowness of the Kazakhstan sowing and warned that the authorities on the scene would not be allowed to hide behind poor weather as an alibi. Nikita Khrushchev himself found it necessary to rush east to meet with the Kazakh Communist Party and discuss "at length" the problems of the virgin lands...
...strangely benign twist to the current uncompromising Soviet line, Russia's top World War II military hero, Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov, in a Pravda article, indulged himself in praise for two former comrades in arms. Wrote Zhukov, in marking the ninth anniversary of V-E day: "The Soviet people will never forget the selfless struggle waged against the German armed forces by our Allies. We pay our due also to their leaders. General of the Army Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery, under whose leadership American and British armed forces repeatedly defeated German fascist troops." Later in his piece, however...
...morning nearly five years after the Russian Revolution of 1917, an article headlined "Professor Sorokin" appeared in Pravda. Written by Lenin himself, the article stated that though Sorokin had never agreed with the Bolsheviks, he was a true revolutionary at heart. Russia, Lenin concluded, "needs his mind...