Word: pravda
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...sequence that has Sasha posing for a photographer beside her drill press. She is alone, an unwed mother, sick with despair, but the picture is published over the caption: "Sasha Lvova finds happiness in her factory. She has enlarged her quota 163%." Director Chukhrai seems fully aware that pravda is stranger than fiction...
...serious bachelor, Barghoorn liked nothing better than to hole up for a ten-hour stretch in his top-floor office at Yale's Hall of Graduate Studies. There, amidst bundles of old laundry and discarded razor blades, he meticulously pored over books, clippings and back issues of Pravda. Russian-speaking Barghoorn knew his subject firsthand. From 1942 until 1947 he was a press attache at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. To avoid trouble, Barghoorn deliberately did not carry a camera during five trips to Russia between 1956 and last March, when he arranged for scholarly exchanges or gathered information...
Asked if it is necessary to prove communism "better" than capitalism, Michael Kuhtarev, a journalist for Kemsomeiskaya Pravda, replied with an old Russian proverb: "Each bird praises its own lake. We think that our lake is very good. We like it. Therefore we praise it." He remarked that most Americans have a poor understanding of communism...
...Russian party, which spent Monday and Tuesday at M.I.T., consists of young professional workers from various regions of the Soviet Union. The 15 men and 6 women include engineers, teachers, miners, a collective farm chairman, a journalist for Komsomolskaya Pravda, and a representative to the Supreme Soviet...
...Pravda, meanwhile, prepared the Soviet populace for possible shortages next year. The newspaper complained that farmers were "lagging intolerably" in their autumn plowing for the 1964 spring harvest. "They are carrying it out much worse than last year...