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Moscow's Pravda did some boasting last week in honor of Press Day, marking its 36th birthday. In 30 years, said Pravda, the Russian press has grown from 884 to 7,163 papers with 31,100,000 circulation. Pravda alone claimed 2,200,000, which made it Russia's biggest and the world's fourth biggest daily.* Pioneer Pravda, for young Communists, was second with 1,000,000, and Izvestia third with...
...Shostakovich it was a second fiery purification. In 1936, his clangorous Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk offended Stalin's ever-pricked ears, and the Pravda denunciation that followed kept Shostakovich under a cloud for five years. But this time the guilty composers did not need to suffer so prolonged a darkness. The road to quick redemption had been charted by another great Soviet artist, Cinema Director Sergei Eisenstein. Several times damned for deviation (notably for Ivan the Terrible), he always recanted, begged forgiveness, and put a little more pig iron in his next picture...
Last week, Moscow's Pravda, the Communist Party's voice of authority, decided that the time had come to scotch the dream. It thundered: "Pravda believes these countries do not need a problematical and artificial federation, confederation or customs union." In Sofia, disciplined Communist Dimitrov heard and heeded. In effect, he cried: I was misquoted...
...Kremlin, through Pravda, squelch the plan to create another great Communist-dominated state? Partly because the Kremlin's bosses, as inheritors of Czarist foreign policy, did not want a revived and enlarged Austro-Hungarian empire; partly (and more important), from fear that their puppets might get out of hand. Party discipline inside the U.S.S.R. has been maintained for so long by police power that Moscow looks askance at Communists like Dimitrov and Tito who control police states of their...
...great Eastern European federation might be able to protect its bosses from the Kremlin's reach. Therefore Moscow wanted to coordinate the policies of Eastern European countries through Communist Party machinery, which it can control, rather than through Eastern European governments. As Pravda explained: "What [these states] do need is consolidation and protection of their independence and sovereignty through mobilization and organization of their domestic democratic forces, as has been correctly stated in the known declaration of the nine Communist Parties...