Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Moscow was practicing its own political damage control. The Communist Party daily Pravda said that three local officials were punished for failing to distribute wages and clothing after the accident and for otherwise ignoring the needs of evacuees. One offender was expelled from the party and a second was reprimanded. Western experts called the moves part of a concerted effort to blame local authorities for Moscow's delay in responding to the disaster--the first evacuations were not ordered until 36 hours after the accident--and its failure for three days to announce that a serious nuclear mishap...
...private audience by Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The following month Karmal abruptly disappeared from view, even failing to show up at his country's Revolutionary Day parade--the equivalent, noted a Western diplomat in Islamabad, of "staying away from one's own birthday party." Meanwhile, the Soviet newspaper Pravda ran a front-page story attacking Karmal's failure to build a stable base of support for his Communist regime. Rumors had it that the Afghan chieftain was visiting the Soviet Union for treatment of a lung problem or leukemia. But many observers suspected that his problems were more than medical...
Only later did the Soviet press begin to carp that capitalist competitiveness had been responsible for undue haste in U.S. space projects. Komsomolskaya Pravda charged that the accident showed the frailty of Reagan's antimissile Star Wars program and asked, "What if lack of caution, a technical defect or sheer chance should bring the world an unforeseen nuclear...
...Soviets responded peevishly to Shultz's trip, and especially to his rhetoric, which the Communist Party daily Pravda denounced as a throwback to the cold war era. Soviet Americanologist Georgi Arbatov asserted that Shultz has backed down from his pre-summit posture of conciliation toward the Soviet camp and has instead bowed to pressure from "right-wing circles" that, according to Soviet demonology, control the White House...
Although Yevtushenko was branded a rebel in the late 1950s, he has since become an Establishment figure. This past September, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda printed a Yevtushenko poem, considered in step with Gorbachev's thinking, that attacked sluggish bureaucrats. In his address, Yevtushenko also condemned favors bestowed on the party elite. "Any form of closed food and commodity distribution is morally impermissible," he said, "including the special ration cards to visit souvenir booths that are in the pockets of all the delegates to this congress, myself included." He also indirectly denounced Stalin's reign of terror throughout the 1930s...