Word: pravda
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Planted Cronies. If the Chinese in Peking think that Khrushchev blundered, are there any "Chinese" in Moscow who think so too? Publication in Pravda of a year-old anti-Stalin poem by Evgeny Evtushenko (TIME, Nov. 2) was noted with fascination by some students of Soviet policy; to them it suggested that Khrushchev's crowd was issuing a warning to its Stalinist enemies. In addition, Izvestia stated emphatically that the Soviet decision to withdraw the Cuba missiles was "the only correct one in the prevailing circumstances," which sounded as if a defense of the move had become necessary. Finally...
...Embassy. Not understanding why the U.S. had acted, Russians were prepared to be indignant, if also a little frightened, when Pravda told them: "The American ruling quarters are acting like cowardly beasts . . . The imperialist aggressors must remember that if they try to fan the fire of world war, they will inevitably burn in its flames." At that, endless resolutions from factories and collective farms poured in to Moscow sympathizing with poor little Cuba. A Moscow circus staged a "Cuban Carnival" in which Russians disguised as Cubans danced wildly to Latin music and raced about with beards and burp guns...
...Russia's restive younger generation, has recited for trusted friends an eloquent, venomous attack on Stalinism that he considered too hot to publish. For a while, the poem circulated through Russia's mysterious poetic underground, until last week it was printed in full by the party newspaper Pravda. For whatever purpose, the party evidently wanted to suggest that Stalinism still exists, and that Khrushchev is its enemy...
...Stalin has not surrendered. He thinks death can be repaired. The Communist youth paper Komsomolskaya Pravda last week gave over a page to eight additional Evtushenko poems, including another anti-Stalinist tirade. By week's end, slightly dazed Russian readers found still another Evtushenko work, this one contributed from Havana, where he is writing the scenario for a movie about Castro's revolution. Couched in the form of a Letter to America, it was a predictable tirade against the U.S. blockade of that "small but courageous island which is becoming a great country." The U.S., charged Evtushenko, first...
...Pravda reported that Letter to America had been phoned in by the poet from Cuba. Evidently, like Stalin in his grave, Evtushenko has a telephone-but his is securely connected with the party line...