Word: pravda
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...Pravda's Favorite. Wallace, who had little rapport with Truman, clung to his practice of speaking out on foreign affairs. As the shadow of Soviet imperialism lengthened over Europe, he advocated a conciliatory line toward the nation's wartime ally. On Sept. 12, 1946, he made a celebrated speech condemning the Administration's hardening attitude toward the Soviets at the very moment that the U.S. was sparring with Stalin over Europe's post-war boundaries. Infuriated by Wallace's intrusion, which suggested that the U.S. was disunited on the Cold War issues he was negotiating...
Last week the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda (Truth for Youth) lowered the boom on a famed sea captain, Aleksei Solyanik. Though he had been celebrated as a hero for his whaling exploits and was awarded the Order of Lenin, the captain was now accused of "rude suppression of criticism, inadmissible nepotism, and abuse of his high post. He killed the sentiments of justice, honor and dignity among...
Lately, such attacks on tyrannical officials have become commonplace in the Russian press. Thousands of letters of complaint pour in daily to the editorial offices of Pravda, Izvestia and other papers. If a letter is published-and many are-the writer is assured some kind of redress: an official mentioned in a newspaper complaint is required to answer it. Sometimes the private gripes blossom into a full-fledged editorial discussion of substantive issues: economics, or crime, or agriculture, or juvenile delinquency. It all adds up to impressive evidence that some of the shackles have been removed from the Soviet press...
...regime. Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Beria, Molotov all served time on Russian newspapers and used them to consolidate their power. "No tool so flexible," said Stalin, referring to the press, "is to be found in nature." Today, some 7,000 of these tools-ranging from the big Moscow dailies, Pravda and Izvestia, to crude factory handouts-are published in 121 languages in Russia...
...study of job opportunities in the Soviet Union today-and found that there are not enough to go around, particularly for new high school graduates entering the employment market. The report blamed that old capitalist bugaboo, automation. In time, if creeping Libermanism continues to advance at its present rate, Pravda may have to list job opportunities for unemployed bureaucrats...