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...Soviet press is thousands of town, village and factory papers, shop wall newspapers, group publications for trade unions, the Party, youth, the Army. But most important are the three big Moscow dailies, Pravda, Izvestia, Red Star, and two magazines, Crocodile and War and the Working Class...
...Party Line. Press Day marks the anniversary of the founding of Pravda (Truth) at St. Petersburg in 1912. In 32 years Pravda has become the world's biggest daily, with over 3,000,000 circulation, though in wartime its circulation is being held to about 2,000,000.* Its two Moscow buildings spread over the equivalent of two New York City blocks and contain a clinic, restaurant, theater for press workers. Its 21 rotary presses (mostly U.S.-made) can print 1,000,000 copies an hour. The Pravda plant also produces many a book and other publication, notably Komsomolskaya...
Lest the hint escape, Pravda chimed in briskly: "The time has arrived to inflict devastating blows in the west as well...
...Moscow theater, at 10 o'clock one night, Father Orlemanski was tapped on the shoulder, told to go to the Kremlin. There, for two hours, he was closeted with Premier Joseph Stalin, Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. Next Morning, the Communist Party's Pravda splashed a photograph across its front page: beaming Stalin, flanked by beaming Molotov, beaming Father Orlemanski (see cut). If Russia gasped that day, it had a good excuse: this was the first time Atheist Stalin had been photographed with a Catholic priest...
Hardly a 1944 week passes that Moscow does not shoot a diatribe U.S.-ward. The big blasts usually engage Pravda's old (64), red-faced, always-angry David Iosifovitch Zaslavsky (among his targets: Wendell Willkie, William Randolph Hearst). Last week Triggerman Zaslavsky turned his howitzer on the New York Times''s big gun of military reportage and analysis, Hanson Weightman Baldwin. Comrade Zaslavsky called him "Admiral of an Ink Pool...