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...rejoicings in the Moscow press over the virtues and glorious achievements of the Soviet Union, a foreigner on a gloomy Sunday morning cannot help contemplating with a heavy heart the imperfections and errors of the U.S. As evidence of the happy unanimity of electors in the U.S.S.R., the newspaper Pravda today points out that in the last U.S. presidential election only 48,000,000 of 60,000,000 persons qualified to vote exercised the franchise [and] 25,600,000 voted for the party in power...
...Last Sunday, according to official U.S.S.R. figures, 99.7% of the people qualified to vote in the U.S.S.R. actually did vote. And 99.18% of them voted for the Communist and nonparty bloc that is in power. Speculating on the reception abroad of the news . . . Pravda continues: 'It is not difficult to guess that the results . . . came as an extremely unpleasant surprise to those who had hoped for a weakening of the solidarity of the Soviet people and those who do not relish Soviet democracy...
...cause of Lenin, the wise leader of the Soviet people, the creator of the might of our he "land, the organizer and inspirer of the historic victory over Fascist Germany and Imperial Japan, the brilliant Army leader, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin." The press pitched into the campaign. One day Pravda would report that American women were being forced into prostitution by unemployment, the next day it would prove authoritatively that the Soviet was "the only real people's government in the world...
...action will UNO take if a small power accuses a great power of aggression? Korea, still split between U.S. and Russian occupation zones, symbolized a whole set of answers needed on dependent areas and trusteeship. The Moscow press showed that Molotov was mincing no words on the Far East-Pravda challenged the presence of U.S. troops in China, and Izvestia complained that the U.S. tolerated "Japanese militarists in the toga of democrats...
...began in Tiflis, where two professors, S. R. Dzanashia and N. Berdzenishvili, wrote a letter demanding that 10,000 square miles of Turkey (see map), "the seized cradle of our people," be forthwith handed over to the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. The letter was promptly featured in Izvestia, Pravda and Red Star-the Government, Party and Army organs...