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...Pravda's No.1 hatchet man, David Zaslavsky, came out swinging savagely. He tried to pin on Atkinson the practice (Pravda's own practice, incidentally) of reckless and scurrilous fiction-mongering. He portrayed him as a "commercial traveler" for a typical capitalist newspaper enterprise, whose only job was to produce, by fabrication or distortion, the sort of news his bosses wanted to print...
...good bureaucrat needs to be happy is a bureau-any bureau. Not understanding this universal law of nature, Moscow s Komsomolskaya Pravda waxed wroth last week at a bureaucrat named Bylinkin who could just as well have worked in Omsk, Tomsk or Washington...
Observed Komsomolskaya Pravda indignantly: "The worst part of the whole affair is that, having spent three days in a different institution, Bylinkin did not notice any difference in the nature of the work of two such different organizations as an Oblast Komsomol Committee and an Oblast Agricultural Committee...
...hour of the day or night. Men, women & children are likely to relieve themselves on any street-except the main street. The streets and roads are so bad that when anyone travels any distance in and around Archangel in a car, it is news and is reported as such. Pravda Severa, published in Archangel, carried an item about a doughty citizen who drove for six versts (four miles) with his entire family to attend a local celebration. He has my deepest respect...
Before he can hope to make another film, Eisenstein may have to eat humble pie, like the magazine Sovietskoe Iskusstvo (Soviet Art), recently denounced by Pravda because its critics were too polite to Soviet artists. Last week Iskusstvo crawled for three whole columns: "To our sorrow, very often an objective critical analysis of a work was replaced by out-of-place praise. In articles about some plays, Carmen for instance ... we wrote in delightful tones. But it was a quite ordinary performance...