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After Stalin's 70th birthday in 1949, it took Pravda 22 months to print all the names of his well-wishers. Last week, on the tenth anniversary of the tyrant's death, there was not a single mention by press or radio of the man Nikita Khrushchev once fulsomely praised as "our great leader, our friend and father, the greatest man of our epoch." In all of Moscow's millions, only a single anonymous soul dared to pay respects-with three rubles worth of yellow mimosa on Stalin's black marble slab near the Kremlin wall...
...Communists of Baghdad, they were still going into jails. The result was one of the biggest single Red propaganda barrages since the Reds charged the U.S. with using germ warfare in Korea. Pravda's correspondent claimed, "I saw tanks crush women and children," and reported the "physical annihilation of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Iraqi democrats and patriots.'' The Pravda man went looking for Aziz Sharif, a 1962 Lenin Peace prizewinner at the office of the Peace Partisans League (a euphemism for Red militia). A soldier on guard at the office told him. "That dog has long since...
Flashy Journalism. The whole trip was nothing short of smashing: a reception by the Foreign Trade Ministry, a lunch with the Union of Soviet Journalists, rubberneck tours of the Kremlin and the Pravda newspaper plant, and finally an audience with Khrushchev himself...
...family feud that threatens to split the world Communist movement. Last week the rift was there for all to see, laid out in plain words in Mao Tse-tung's Red Flag and People's Daily, followed by a paragraph-by-paragraph retort in Khrushchev's Pravda...
Though highly critical of several aspects of Russian life, particularly Stalinism, anti-Semitism, and bureaucratic control, the poet is a loyal Communist and has the sanction of the Soviet government. He has recently published in Pravda despite much violent criticism aimed at some of his writing from various Soviet quarters...