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...Hint. Three days later, a Pravda reporter got further details from Joe Stalin himself. Asked the reporter: "What is your opinion of the hubbub raised recently in the foreign press in connection with the test of an atom bomb in the Soviet Union?" Replied Stalin: "Indeed, one of the types of atom bombs was recently tested in our country. Tests of atom bombs of different calibers will be conducted in the future as well." He repeated the Communist propaganda line that the Soviet Union stands for outlawing atomic bombs. Most Russians do not know that the U.S.S.R. has wrecked...
...innocence, had been doing the same. Two of them, Y. K. Syrkin and M. E. Dyatkina, published a well-regarded textbook, The Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules, that is based almost entirely upon the resonance theory. Recently they got their comeuppance, when they were violently denounced in Pravda. At a scientific conference they and two sympathizers were censured by a dutiful vote of 400 colleagues. The charge: that they applied the principles "of the harmful resonance theory in their research," and failed to give "a comprehensive criticism of this idealistic teaching...
Eventually, he got into combat. In June 1942, Colonel Stalin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for bravery in combat, in 1944 was mentioned in his father's Order of the Day, again for bravery. Said Pravda: "He has continually made a brilliant record in heaviest fighting." Vasily got the Order of Suvorov, 2nd Class, and command of the 16th Air Division (50 planes), based at Dallgow Field near Potsdam. Red airmen say that he just about ran the entire 16th Air Division, since its nominal head, Colonel General Leonid Rudenko, carefully deferred to Joe Stalin...
Back to the Czar. Pravda's reply, twice as long as the Morrison statement and printed right alongside, is in its way as remarkable as the unprecedented gesture of publishing the Morrison text. By Soviet standards of invective, it is mild; in spots, it sounds strangely apologetic and naive...
...Pravda describes Russia's huge armed forces as "a certain minimum regular army necessary to defend [Russian] independence," and goes all the way back to 1920 (when Britain, the U.S. and France made a halfhearted attempt to erase the Bolshevik Revolution) for an instance of "imperialist aggression" against Russia. To justify the Communist regime, Pravda also reaches back, almost sentimentally, to "Czarist exploiters and landowners" (all of whom are long dead or out of Russia). Pravda repeats the old line that: 1) MVD labor camps and censorships exist only for "enemies of the people . . . terrorists and assassins"; 2) Russians...