Word: pravda
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...judge by the Soviet news treatment of Richard Nixon's fall from power, the former President was an innocent hounded from office by political enemies and the press. For months, Tass and Pravda completely ignored the scandal, presumably to avoid embarrassing Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev, who had personally aligned himself with Nixon in negotiating détente and who had three times held summit meetings with him. When the official press finally noted Nixon's resignation, it did so with such a mixture of fantasy and fallacy that an American would have a hard time recognizing the familiar...
...arms suppliers to the Arab world, feel humiliated and embarrassed that they have seemingly contributed nothing to the shaping of a possible peace and that Kissinger has quickly made friends with Egypt, once a virtual Soviet client. Soviet resentment is visceral and obvious: last week pointed articles appeared in Pravda and other Soviet publications charging that Kissinger had negotiated disengagement, not for the Middle East's benefit, but to protect U.S. oil sources. It was a rare criticism of the American agent whom the Russians know and like best...
With the banishment, Solzhenitsyn's remarkable career as a writer in Soviet Russia came full circle. It had begun with the official publication in 1962 of his concentration camp novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a work that Pravda hailed as a masterpiece. Nikita Khrushchev was, in a way, his patron; he had encouraged the publication of One Day as part of his own effort to discredit Stalin. But once Khrushchev himself was deposed, there followed for Solzhenitsyn a decade of increasingly dramatic confrontations with the authorities. His subsequent novels were banned, and he was regularly excoriated...
...continued to assault Solzhenitsyn with such epithets as "traitor," "blasphemer," "renegade," "fascist," "counterrevolutionary" and "enemy of the people." Party activists and policemen were out scouring factories and collective farms for signatures to letters expressing patriotic indignation about Gulag. Scores of such letters have already been published by Pravda and other papers calling for Solzhenitsyn's punishment. Many Western experts believe that the final step in this Stalin-era tactic will be an announcement of legal action against Solzhenitsyn, taken in deference to the "will" of the mass of the Soviet people...
...ticked off some of the Russian press's misrepresentations of Gulag. "I am alleged to have written that 'Hitler's Nazis were gracious and merciful to enslaved peoples.' All lies, Pravda comrades! Point out the exact pages! Tass says that in my autobiography I admitted my hatred of the Soviet system and people. My autobiography was published by the Nobel Foundation in 1970. It is available for the whole world to see how insolently Tass lies...