Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Proof" in Pictures. These goings-on were not in a James Bond thriller. They came in a detailed, two-part serial in Pravda titled Caught Redhanded, which may herald the biggest Moscow spy spectacular since Gary Powers' U-2 trial...
...PRESS). No other President has maintained such close personal contacts with newsmen. Aware of the Kennedy method of the indirect nudge, the planted hint, the push by newspaper column, students of the Administration follow the work of Kennedy's favorite columnists as faithfully as Kremlinologists plod through Pravda's prose. And of all Washington newsmen, Charlie Bartlett is closest to Kennedy...
...Kremlin last week was also rapping the knuckles of Soviet writers. Pravda, in a front-page editorial complained that too many Russian authors had "betrayed" the cause of socialist realism in favor of "all-forgiving liberalism or rotten, sentimental complacency." These "pseudo innovators," argued the editorial, "idly pursue Western fashions, which are profoundly alien to our world outlook, to our esthetic sense, and to our concept of what is wonderful and beautiful...
...group of writers was exempted from Pravda's tirade. They were the authors who served Khrushchev's destalinization campaign. All the rage in Moscow last week was an autobiographical short novel by a previously unknown writer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsin, 44, a provincial teacher who spent eight years in an Arctic slave labor camp after...
Today the signs of Sovietization are everywhere. The architecture of Ulan Ba tor is Stalin-modern. The national newspaper Unen is a replica of Moscow's Pravda, and both words mean "truth." The farmers and herdsmen are grouped in collectives and on state farms, as in Russia. The No. i Communist, Tsedenbal, heads both the government and the party, as Khrushchev does in Moscow. Ulan Bator has a mausoleum, containing Sukhe Bator's remains, similar to the Lenin tomb in the Soviet capital. In 1946, Mongols adopted the Russian Cyrillic alphabet; their army is Russian trained and equipped...