Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accolades that can come his way is to be reprinted, uncensored, in Russia. Last week this distinction befell a newcomer to the ranks of political correspondents: James A. Wechsler, 45, of the liberal New York Post (circ. 343,140). Without changing a line, Russia's two leading dailies, Pravda (6,300,000) and Izvestia (2,300,000), carried in full the second part of a two-part Wechsler profile of President John Kennedy...
...peace and good will. Such utterances are quite properly reported at length in the U.S., because what Russia's leader says at any moment is news, whether or not he says what he means or means what he says. By the same standard, it is my hope that Pravda and Izvestia will reprint this portrait of the President of the United States...
Russian readers must have been mystified-if not shocked-at seeing the sanity of their leader challenged in print-even by an outsider. Both Pravda and Izvestia prefaced the Wechsler columns with statements disavowing their contents ("This article is of definite interest, although the editors cannot agree with some of its propositions"). Nevertheless, they let Wechsler have his full say: "In the twilight of a gray afternoon, I sat with a man one year younger than myself whose decisions may be the final ones of our century. He is the son of a very wealthy man, and therefore the perfect...
Corridor Incidents. But despite Gromyko's willingness to confer, it was still not certain that Nikita Khrushchev was ready to negotiate on rational terms. Soviet Defense Minister Rodion Malinovosky, in an ominous article in Pravda, said that Russia must arm its forces for "a strenuous, difficult and exceptionally fierce war." Along Western air corridors to Berlin, Soviet MIG-17s began making close-up inspections of U.S. passenger liners-the first such incidents in a year. There was a rising chorus of East German and Soviet complaints that the Allies were "misusing" the corridors-a possible foreshadowing of Red efforts...
From the start, Ulbricht was a brassy enemy of the intellectuals who had captured control of the party in the early 19205. Ulbricht's pal was a Russian courier who had direct contact with Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin in Moscow. Soon Pravda was sniping at the "nonproletarian enemies of the working class in the German party," and soon Ulbricht's enemies were purged. It was time for a major party overhaul; tough, conscientious Walter Ulbricht got the job. Comrade Ulbricht took on the name Genosse Zelle (Comrade Cell), began atomizing the easygoing Communist cliques into tight little cells...