Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When it comes to criticizing Soviet bureaucracy, no Westerner can be so merciless as the Communists themselves. Last week Pravda took after O.K.B., the government's Experimental Design Bureau, which supplies industrial know-how not otherwise borrowed from the West. Samples...
...There is more than one similarity between the Tribune and the Russian mouthpiece, Pravda. Both of them edit the news to fit a party line . . . When Russia starts a shooting war, Stalin blames the United States and Harry Truman. So does the Chicago Tribune. When the United Nations takes an effective step toward insuring peace by resisting aggression . . . both Stalin and McCormick attack the United Nations. At the Chicago Tribune they sit up all night figuring out new ways to sneer at our Government's program for world peace...
...those who are eager to get it "straight from the horse's mouth," however, both Lamont and Widener carry Moscow editions of Isvestia and Pravda (in Russian...
...photographers, Andrei Vishinsky gave the bird back to an aide, strode up to the speaker's podium to eat some crow. No one, including his bosses in Moscow, had been much amused by his laughing dismissal of the West's disarmament proposals the week before. In Pravda's account of the speech, the laughed-all-night passage was cut out. Vishinsky prefaced his second try by trying to minimize his first: "I merely made some cursory remarks at the time...
...thought. While he clicked out copy in Moscow's Hotel Metropole, she carted out the empty vodka bottles, lined up tickets for a concert of the Leningrad Jazz Band, checked on laundry, and even darned his socks. Then one day, before she could so much as say Komsomolskaya Pravda, Journalist Ronald Matthews proposed...