Word: rossiya
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent weeks passed word to its Arab client states that no more Soviet weapons earmarked for their armies are to be passed along to the fedayeen. When the Palestine Liberation Organization publicly complained that "the Soviet Union persists in ignoring the rights of the Palestinians," Moscow's Sovietskaya Rossiya hauled out one of its strongest epithets, labeling them Trotskyites. For good measure, it added that their aim of "the liquidation of Israel is not realistic...
...Russians invade Czechoslovakia? If the Moscow newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya is to be believed, it was mostly because they could no longer abide the freedom that Alexander Dubček had granted the Czech press. "The reintroduction of bourgeois press freedom led to the most destructive consequences," declared the Moscow paper in an editorial explaining the invasion. While it lasted, moreover, it was a freedom exercised furiously, with a passion pent up by two decades of enforced Communist conformity. And, despite the Russian tanks, it is not yet completely dead...
Clumsy Canard. Kosygin arrived at a time of rising anti-Soviet feeling in Czechoslovakia. Earlier in the week, that feeling had been exacerbated by an article in Moscow's Sovietskaya Rossiya that called Dr. Thomas G. Masaryk, founder of the Czechoslovak republic and the country's most revered historical figure, an "absolute scoundrel." The journal charged that Masaryk in 1918 paid a Russian terrorist named Boris Savinkov 200,000 rubles (then worth some $10,000) to kill Lenin. Masaryk's memory is enjoying a fresh outpouring of honor and homage in the wave of current reform...
...Moscow's Sovietskaya Rossiya huffed indignantly about a large Chinese boat on the Amur River in Siberia that was deliberately swamping smaller Russian craft and splashing Soviet sunbathers on the river banks...
...circle of Communist critics tightened around brash young Poet Evgeny Evtushenko last week. The Kremlin announced a full meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee next month to discuss "ideological" matters-meaning the crackdown on Evtushenko and other maverick intellectuals. The official organ of the Moscow Writers Union, Literaturnaya Rossiya, backed a reader's suggestion that Evtushenko be thrown out of the union-a move that would reduce the high-living poet to poverty, since state publishing houses would no longer accept his work. Even Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin joined the wolf pack snarling at Evtushenko's heels. Following...