Word: pravda
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...Moscow, for instance, there are eight daily papers and each is supposed to represent a definite state organism. Pravda is the voice of the party's Central Committee; Izvestia, the organ of the Government. Red Star is the Army newspaper; Red Fleet, the Navy newspaper...
...This is a poor return for the amount of information about the U.S. disclosed daily in its free press, but it means even less to the average Russian reader. In general, he may doubt the word of his lesser newspapers, but when Pravda or Tass (the news agency) speaks, he feels that he is listening to the voice of his Government and is inclined to believe. There are exceptions, of course. I once asked a Russian acquaintance what he thought about a Tass account of a U.S. Negro youth congress which condemned lynchings and the activities of certain U.S. Senators...
Love Thy Boss. From Moscow came a different kind of critique. In the Soviet magazine Culture & Life, Pravda Correspondent Yuri Zhukov tore into Hollywood with a party-line vengeance. The U.S. movie monopolies, declared the article indignantly, had actually abandoned the profit motive in order to reel off anti-Communist propaganda. Wrote Zhukov: "Hollywood films advertise American capitalists as noble, wealthy persons who should be imitated and obeyed. . . . They propagate patience and obedience on the part of submissive girl workers, showing finally how they win the love of their bosses or his son. . . . Crimes are incited by 'dangerous Reds...
...some five hours, more than a million Red soldiers, sailors and workers marched by. While more than 200 Soviet warplanes swooped overhead, cavalry clattered and giant tanks clanked. The militant note was also struck by Ilya Ehrenburg, one of the Soviet Government's snappiest journalistic terriers. In Pravda, he gave the official text for the day: the U.S. Government does not speak for the American people. Even while the parade is taking place, cried Ilya, "the imperialists with their criminally aggressive plans [are] dreaming of plunging humanity into a sanguinary whirlpool of a new war. . . . Americans carry an atom...
...dictionary. "You know there's no such thing," Mueller explains fretfully. "It's German, of course." But annoyance is inevitable, for business is looking up. Books are pouring in now from all over the world except Germany. The French are creating like mad; every day a few copies of Pravda arrive; and Mueller is convinced that Europe is going to be as active in literature as it ever was before...