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...Pravda (Moscow)-Without a doubt the calmest, most businesslike and most influential newspaper in the Soviet Union and perhaps in the world. As the guardian of the Party line, it takes a position on all questions of public life and the other media follow its lead...
Soviet Imperialism. Despite concerted efforts at persuasion and propaganda, the Soviets so far have only made mat ters worse. The act of invasion was bad enough, but the subsequent rationale for it that the Soviets have evolved is equally alarming to many Communists. Enunciated first by Pravda, the official party newspaper, and later by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in a speech at the United Nations, the Soviet Union claims the right to intervene in any Socialist country where the practice and purity of Soviet-style Communism is threatened. Popularly called "the Brezhnev Doctrine," after Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev...
...past, of course, the Soviets have always regarded it their duty to defend Communism against the imperialists. But now, as enunciated by Soviet Foreign Secretary Andrei Gromyko at the U.N. and by Pravda, the official party newspaper, the Soviet Union asserts the right to intervene in any member country of the Socialist Commonwealth where the purity or supremacy of the party might be threatened. Diplomats are uncertain whether the pronouncement represents only an after-the-fact rationalization for the invasion of Czechoslovakia or whether it is a major development in Soviet doctrine that could justify the dispatch of Red Army...
...with the pace of what the Russians call the "normalization" of Czechoslovak life. In particular, they resent the halfhearted censorship that permits most Czechoslovak news media to continue making subtle gibes at Soviet policy. On the day Dubček's delegation arrived in Moscow, the party paper Pravda complained that in Czechoslovakia "one rarely hears criticism of anti-Soviet, revisionist, right-wing forces...
...past that the NATO treaty, which guarantees an allied riposte to any attack on West Germany, makes the clauses obsolete. Nonetheless, all three decided to put it in writing for the Kremlin after the Russians coupled their Czech invasion with an intense propaganda attack on Bonn. Both Pravda and Izvestia responded to the allied notes with fresh complaints of West German "militarism and revanchism...