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...official party newspaper Pravda laid down the indictment: Beria 1) had been using the MVD (secret police) "against the party and its leadership and against the government ... by selecting workers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of personal loyalty to himself"; 2) had "impeded decisions on the most important and urgent problems concerning agriculture . . . with a view to undermining the collective farms and creating difficulty in the country's food supply"; 3) had striven "to activize bourgeois nationalist elements in the Union republics...
...Pravda's accusation, appearing 13 days after the tanks rumbled down Sadovaya, brought the first news to the Russian public. In Moscow, long lines of people formed at the newspaper kiosks; some paused to read their newspapers in the street, which is unusual in Moscow. Others crowded around the wall newspapers. Then they went stoically about their business. It was a warm, sunny day. Moscovites who were not working went picnicking, and the swimming places on the Moskva River were crowded. Moscow's crack Torpedo soccer team played the Kiev Dynamos, lost 3 to 1. The diplomatic corps...
...possible effect on foreign policy; but the real stage and the most important audience was the Soviet Union. The reason for the delay in announcing Beria's arrest was soon apparent: the masses had to be prepared. Mass meetings were now being held throughout the Soviet Union. Pravda in hand, party workers and activists were haranguing the workers and peasants. Lesser party members quickly picked up the line. Said the director of Moscow's Hammer & Sickle factory: "We . . . demand that the severe hand of Soviet justice should mercilessly punish this freak deviationist." Said girl Plasterer Tamara Demicheva...
...most complete report of what happened came not from the usual "well-informed sources" but from the Reds' own Pravda of Pilsen, center of the giant Lenin (formerly Skoda) Works. It was written in Communist doubletalk, but remarkably candid for all that: "On June 1, some politically unaware workers let themselves be persuaded into believing that the currency reform was aimed at them, and that they would not be able to live on their new wages and would go hungry. They staged antistate demonstrations ... In the town hall rioters tore down pictures of Czech state leaders and hung...
...left to Moscow, at week's end, to provide the Big Three conference with the proper atmosphere for settling Western differences. First Pravda warned that a Big Three conference was likely to heighten international tension. Then the Moscow radio rejected the West's invitation to reopen the Austrian treaty talks. Apparently Pravda was really worried about what came naturally when Western allies began bickering...