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...state's "strong and qualified propaganda apparatus" is not doing a good job. "Not infrequently, newspaper material, television and radio broadcasts are not convincing enough, lack a serious overall view." He urged "ideological front workers" to improve their product, especially in the highly simplistic presentation of foreign news. Meanwhile, Pravda editorialized last year against "the fear of discussing the problems facing our society, the tendency to smooth over and avoid unresolved problems, to blur real shortcomings and difficulties...
...first symptoms of the coming crunch. Gasoline prices have doubled during the past two years, to roughly $1.25 per gal. Plans to expand car production beyond the present million-a-year level have been shelved; talk of building a second large automobile and truck factory has ceased; and Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, has printed lengthy exhortations to conserve energy. Except at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, where many foreign flights arrive, jets of Aeroflot, the national airline, no longer use their own engines to taxi into takeoff position; to save fuel, they are towed into position by tractors. NATO...
...Pravda prints all the news that fits the party line...
...have a reality of their own in shaping the war psychosis of the occupied city. The men seen in the streets with guns, the façade of power, are Afghans. The real occupiers, the Soviets, are invisible, except for their helicopters, the jet contrails, the daily barrage of Pravda-phrased media propaganda, the Cyrillic script that is replacing English, German and French signs in some store windows, and the guarded busloads of anxious-looking Russian civilians, mainly women on escorted shopping trips...
...first time, Moscow publicly acknowledged that all was not well. Pravda admitted on its front page that Kabul was beset by "unrest" and "insurgency." In the frankest admission of all, the official news agency TASS indicated that the Karmal government was in disfavor with a large part of the population. Another surprising admission was attributed by the Italian magazine Panorama to a Soviet general identified as Mikhail Kirian. He publicly conceded that "in the Afghan army, there have been deser tions," and that "the Afghans will have to work hard to put the army in order...