Word: komsomolskaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Galina Stepanchenko lives in the Donbas coal-mining town of Makeevka, works hard and wants to get married. When she wrote to three young men of her acquaintance one day, she had no idea the letters were going to turn up in black type in Komsomolskaya Pravda, but they did. Miss Stepanchenko had made the deplorable mistake of getting all three letters into the wrong envelopes. The recipients thought three was a crowd and exposed the flirtatious Galina. Moscow Correspondent Joseph Newman sent Komsomolskaya Pravda's story along to the New York Herald Tribune, which pubished it this...
...editors of Komsomolskaya Pravda were not amused. An investigation had been made of Miss Stepanchenko. Without doubt, she had been cultivating multiple boy friends in order to make a shrewd, calculated choice of a husband, just like any common bourgeoise...
This sort of thing would not be surprising in the U.S., the editors thought. In fact, they said, according to a survey taken in Texas, most American girls were chiefly concerned with the "pecuniary aspects of their future marriages." But Komsomolskaya Pravda, which exists to point morals for young Communists and Russian youth in general, said that such things could not be tolerated in the Soviet Union...
...Komsomolskaya Pravda (Communist Youth's Truth) one B. Dairedzhiev last week blasted the magazine Oktyabr (October) for "bourgeois sentimentality." He particularly singled out a story called "Comrade Anna," about a Soviet family whose happiness was blighted when the father fell in love with another woman...
...Observed Komsomolskaya Pravda indignantly: "The worst part of the whole affair is that, having spent three days in a different institution, Bylinkin did not notice any difference in the nature of the work of two such different organizations as an Oblast Komsomol Committee and an Oblast Agricultural Committee...