Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exodus from East Germany; about 1,500 a month still manage to flee. Ulbricht publicly admitted last week that the purpose of the Wall had been to halt the flight and its debilitating effects on the East German economy. In a revealing year-end article in Moscow's Pravda, he tried to put all the blame on Western intrigue. "There were considerable difficulties in the education of young intelligentsia from the ranks of the working class," he wrote. "West German firms deliberately recruited such specialists...Some citizens thought crossing the border between the German Democratic Republic and West Germany...
...82nd anniversary of Stalin's birth cut no ice in Moscow, where Pravda-which in the late dictator's prime regularly praised his name as many as 300 times per issue-wrote him off with a single mention: a reference to "the serious obstacles that the Stalin cult of personality placed in the path of the development of Marxist-Leninist theory...
With broad sarcasm, Pravda Columnist S. Vishnevsky dismissed the budding U.S. atom-bomb shelter program. "If we could only open the eyes of those moles." he wrote recently, "they would surely see that there is no sense in hiding underground. But moles are unseeing creatures and moles of bourgeois origin suffer from class blindness." The sneer was less than convincing, for the writer must have known what most of the U.S. does not: the Soviet Union has been at work for more than a decade on a shelter program of its own, spending an estimated $500 million a year (current...
...Russia, no poet need starve if he can hack out odes extolling "socially useful" goals. In revolt against sloganeering paeans that read like Pravda set to rhyme, hundreds of Soviet writers privately turn out poems about lovemaking, maladjustment, and other concerns of the soul neglected by seven-year plans. They call such extracurricular outpourings "poetry for the desk drawer," because it is unproletarian and unpublishable. Yet one of the most revealing aspects of Russian evolution since Stalin has been the growth of the desk drawer...
...explosive area if Mr. Khrushchev is ready to negotiate rather than to dictate." This is not quite the image that John Kennedy has of himself-as he demonstrated in his speech before the U.N. General Assembly (see THE WORLD). Nor did the true Kennedy come off the presses of Pravda and Izvestia as faithfully as the Wechsler version. As printed in Moscow, President Kennedy's U.N. address was carefully shorn of reference to the resoluteness of the free world...