Word: pravda
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Since the Six-Day War, Heikal's discursive prose (two columns on Page One and a full page inside) has dealt primarily with what in Egypt is known as "the Setback." Last April, Heikal managed to offend just about everyone from the Pentagon to Pravda when he advocated "a battle to shatter the myth of Israeli military supremacy . . . one in which the Arab forces might destroy two or three Israeli divisions, kill between 10,000 and 20,000 men, and force the Israeli army to pull back even a few kilometers." When a barrage of public and private entreaties...
Moscow '69 has already produced at least one interesting development. In reporting the proceedings, Pravda, for the first time in 41 years, printed criticism of a ruling Soviet regime. The strong Australian condemnation of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, for example, appeared on Pravda's front page. While the summit was in session, Soviet citizens enjoyed a glimmer of what it is like to read a real newspaper. There in print were foreign comrades defying the Kremlin-and getting away with...
...already fragmented Communist world, the Soviets also backed off somewhat from their earlier determination to wrest from the delegates an endorsement of the Russian stand against China and approval of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Compared with previous Communist conferences, Moscow '69 was relatively open and candid. Pravda ran excerpts from the speeches, including those unfavorable to the Soviet viewpoint. There were daily briefings for correspondents. A Soviet-run press center distributed texts of the speeches, though some of the critical addresses were delayed for many hours for "technical reasons" and then were available only in very small...
...achieved the two-day weekend. With it, they raised a problem long ago solved by Americans: what to do with the extra day. Naturally the Soviets seek a Marxist-Leninist solution. "We have nothing against your supermarkets and all your material facilities for leisure time," says Sergei Vishnevsky, a Pravda editor with long experience in the U.S. "But they have to be combined with high standards of culture, which your middle classes do not have. Material facilities are dead without the supreme blessing of culture...
...only good manners and respect for learning but observance of the elementary rules of hygiene and sanitation as well. "Free time does not amount to idleness," warns Sociologist G. S. Petrosian. "It is the time devoted to study, the raising of [occupational] qualifications, self-education and self-development." As Pravda puts it with typical elephantine grace, "To care about the cultural recreation of the people is, above all, to ensure the conditions making it possible for the working people to spend their free time in such a way as to raise their general cultural and professional level, to improve [themselves...