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...Siberia and in the arctic wastes of the Soviet Union, millions of song-loving Russians are working in forced labor camps. With words and music, they too describe their bitter life and express their longing for home. In the current issue of the Russian-language Paris magazine Narodnaya Pravda, many of their songs are set down by an exile who calls himself S. Yurasov...
Matyas Rakosi, nonalingual secretary general of the Hungarian Communist Party, a commissar in the bloody and shortlived Communist dictatorship of Bela Kun in 1919. He served as a wartime contributor to Pravda, often complains that he "spent the whole of [his] youth in prison," where, he says, he learned patience by reading the Saturday Evening Post...
...three days, the Bulgarian press was too dumfounded to mention Kostov's defiance. Then Moscow's Pravda reported that the startling words of the "despised Anglo-American spy" with the "thieving eyes" had aroused great indignation. Taking their cue, Sofia papers expressed great indignation at Kostov's "impudence...
Last month, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky emphatically told the world that the peace-loving Soviet was using atomic energy for peaceful purposes "right now" (TIME, Nov. 21). Said he at Lake Success: "We are razing mountains; we are irrigating deserts." But in reporting his speech, Pravda made a significant switch: it quoted Vishinsky as saying only that Russia's atomic energists wanted to raze mountains...
Asked by U.S. newsmen at U.N. last week what he thought of Pravda's editing, Vishinsky merely snapped: "The topic is exhausted." But a Russian engineer in Berlin cleared up the whole thing in a speech at the House of Soviet Culture. The moving of mountains is still only the wish of the Soviet people and not an accomplishment, he conceded. But, he added, "since wishes and reality lie close together in the Soviet Union, one can expect the execution of the project in a short while...