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...Soviet Union, where most institutions are new, Pravda ("Truth") is one of the oldest (33 years). Last week the official daily organ of the Communist Party printed its 10,000th issue (and its first six-page number since wartime shortages cut it to four pages...
...three founders (see cut) are alive and doing well. Pravda's first managing editor, Viacheslav Molotov, went to work under Nikolai Lenin's decree: the press was to be "propagandist, agitator and organizer." It still is, although Pravda has long since changed from agitating agin the Government to agitating for, Another Pravda founder, Joseph Stalin, sees to that. It is also intensely nationalist, devotes scant space to news from outside Russia. (It was a day late reporting the Jap surrender...
From an average 40,000 circulation in its first, precarious years (when it led the Tsar's police an underground chase), Pravda grew to 3,000,000 before World War II. Lately the print order has been around 2,000,000 (about the same as the biggest seller in the U.S., the nationalist tabloid New York Daily News), could easily rise to three times that-if Pravda could only get more paper. Price: 20 kopecks (about...
...Pravda is printed on 21 rotary presses (mostly U.S.-made) in a bright, airy plant as big as two Manhattan city blocks, hits the Moscow newsstands in midmorning, along with the other two of the Big Three, the Government's official Izvestia and the Army's Red Star. Other Pravda editions are printed (from mats delivered by plane) the same day in Leningrad and Kuibyshev, the following day in Baku and Rostov...
Though Moscow's Pravda insisted angrily that no issues between the great powers were insoluble, distrust and tension grew. Molotov snapped to the Council of Foreign Ministers: "You would think I was accused and on trial...