As every Russian schoolboy is taught, the Russian press is really freenot free to speak its mind, but free to speak Russian truth. And Russian truth is always carefully designated as such by the Kremlin. Last week, the Kremlin pointed its finger at the U.S.Obediently, the Russian press huffed & puffed at the U.S. with the same force once directed against Nazi Germany.
The first blast was against President Truman. In Moscow's Literary Gazette, Novelist Boris Garbatov, famed in the U.S.S.R. for his wartime best seller, The Unvanquished, likened Truman to Hitler. A protest from U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith got...
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