Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's right, Stephanie Walsh is in Russia. No, she's not there recruiting Soviet swimmers for her team. She's there as the assistant manager of a U.S. swim team competing this week in the International Newspaper Swim Meet, sponsored by the Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda...
...Pravda last week published an acidulous account of Jimmy Carter's ten-minute meeting with exiled Human Rights Activist Vladimir Bukovsky. As Pravda put it, "J. Carter of the United States, received yesterday Bukovsky, a criminal law offender from the Soviet Union who is known as an active opponent of the development of Soviet-American relations." On the day of the White House meeting, at which Vice President Walter Mondale was also present, U.S. Ambassador Malcolm Toon was summoned to Moscow's foreign ministry for "a frank exchange of views" on U.S.-Soviet relations-in short...
...French party, too, still has among its top leadership men who were once staunch Stalinists. Marchais himself is a new (and in some quarters suspect) convert to the more liberal tenets of Euro-Communism. The French Communists were stung by an article in the Soviet Party organ Pravda blasting their participation in a Paris rally called to support political prisoners in the Soviet Union. In Madrid, Marchais was not about to raise Russian hackles again. Said he rather lamely: "We think that the three parties do not have the right to make a collective condemnation of some parties." That left...
...local variations in virtually every Communist country in Europe, a grandmother goes to the police station in Pinsk and requests permission to visit her sister in The Bronx. The policeman just shakes his head. The old lady then pulls out of her string shopping bag the tattered pages from Pravda reproducing the text of the Helsinki agreement. "It says here, young man, on page 3, section A-Contacts and Regular Meetings on the Basis of Family Ties-that I can go, and it's signed by Comrade Brezhnev!" Replies the policeman: "Babushka, this is Pinsk, not Helsinki...
...Soviets are righting back by arguing that the dissidents are only a handful of troublemakers who are cleverly using the Western press to draw attention to themselves and are in turn being used by Western governments to stir up trouble in Communist countries. Last week Pravda accused the West of dangling dissidents "on the fishing rod of bourgeois propaganda" so as to distract "the masses from the deep crisis in the capitalist system...