Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week Pravda not only reasserted the validity of peaceful coexistence but also counterattacked with an assault on the domestic policy of the upstart revolutionaries in Peking...
Infantile Sickness. Identifying them only as "certain leftists in international Communism," Pravda charged that the Chinese leaders suffered from the same "infantile sickness of leftism" that Lenin denounced in some of his party's more hotheaded "sectarians" in the early days of the revolution 40 years ago. Now, as then, said Soviet Communism's official mouthpiece, history cannot be hustled. "Trying to anticipate the results of fully matured Communism" by great leaps forward and by rushing to set up communes, said Pravda witheringly, "is like trying to teach higher mathematics to a four-year-old child...
...Leningrad Theological Academy, Archpriest Alexander Ossipov, as well as Archpriest Paul Darmansky, Father Nicolai Spassky, and "other servants of the Church" for having "publicly blasphemed the Name of God" and having "published against their church articles or pamphlets issued by newspapers and the atheist press in the U.S.S.R." (i.e., Pravda and Izvestia). The important point : although the Russian Orthodox Church often seems totally sub servient to the government, it now feels strong enough to excommunicate priests simply for preaching Communism...
...visit Russia was a fear that in Russia, too, the people would enthusiastically respond to him as a symbol of the U.S. Last week, with the President preparing for a mid-June trip to the Philippines, Formosa, Japan and South Korea, Khrushchev worked desperately to discredit the symbol. Pravda followed up with a warning that it would do Ike "no good" to go to Japan...
Because he made his heroes ineffectual drifters, he was at first able to deceive Pravda and the party critics; but it is plain that his fools speak the truth...