Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Absolute Equality. Throughout the on-and-off meetings, the ideological fire continued above the heads of the delegates. The Kremlin splashed a policy statement on the front page of Pravda that ominously warned Peking of the "dangerous consequences" of its policy. As for Nikita Khrushchev, he called out the brass bands, honor guard and television cameras to welcome Hungary's Janos Kadar, who repaid the flattery by once again backing Moscow's line of peaceful coexistence...
...troupe of Patagonian jugglers would have received a warmer welcome from the Kremlin. Not a single Soviet reporter or photographer was on hand when the men from Peking appeared at Moscow airport; Pravda did not even mention their arrival. After months of invective, accusations and counteraccusations, the great confrontation between Soviet and Chinese Party delegations was finally at hand. East and West watched the showdown-or what could be seen of it-with equal fascination...
...trial, which was front-page news in Pravda, was staged as part of a new Soviet campaign to make life harder for Western spies and duller for Communist partygoers. Since last month's trial and execution of Oleg Penkovsky, the scientific official who was convicted of slipping secret information to British and U.S. agents, the Soviet press has been urging comrades to "break the criminal chain of espionage" by showing "revolutionary vigilance and being ideologically well-steeled...
Russians were particularly warned against Moscow's diplomatic cocktail circuit, where, said Pravda darkly, Western spymasters recruit new talent. Warned Pravda: "That was how they got hold of Penkovsky, and the same thing may happen to anyone who, in his blindness, nibbles at the bait the imperialists so lavishly toss out." Izvestia chimed in with an acid-etched portrait of the kind of comrade the imperialists are looking for. Dubbing him "Punkovsky"-for punk-Izvestia reported that this unsavory type cherishes a never-ending stream of gold-embossed invitations to diplomatic receptions, where he can be spotted...
...honest Soviet people" might boycott them altogether. To show that its diatribes were not just cocktail talk, the government last week stripped Artillery Chief Marshal Sergei Varenstov of his rank for having befriended Penkovsky, disciplined some of "the scientist's other friends and boozing companions." "Of course," added Pravda, "we are against spy mania...