When the cold war slid farther below freezing in 1952, two victims of frostbite were Amerika, a Russian-language monthly magazine distributed in the Soviet Union by the U.S.. and U.S.S.R. Information Bulletin, its English-language counterpart in the U.S. Last week, with the cold war's thaw, both magazines were starting up again.
This posed no problems for the U.S. Information Service. It selected some text and color spreads from current U.S. picture magazines and prepared to pour 50,000 copies of Amerika into Russia's state-run distribution system. But the Reds had plenty of trouble with publishing in the U.S.
The Russians were turned down by...
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