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Prava (Russian: Правда, "The Truth") was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991. The Pravda newspaper was started in 1912 in Vienna, Austria, and it did not arrive in Moscow until 1918. During the Cold War, Pravda was well-known in the West for its pronouncements as the official voice of Soviet Communism (similarly, Izvestia was the official voice of the Soviet government).

Trivia about pravda

  • In 1996 this Russian newspaper stopped publishing after 84 years
  • From 1917 to 1929, Nikolai Bukharin was editor of this official Communist Party newspaper
  • Largest Soviet newspaper, its name means "Truth"
  • No lie, it was the Soviet Union's Communist Party newspaper
  • This paper was shut down in 1991 by Boris Yeltsin, but there have been recent incarnations
  • Political theorist Nikolai Bukharin edited this "truthful" Soviet newspaper from 1917 to 1929
  • Stop the presses--it's the Russian word for "truth"
  • Lenin contributed to this then-underground newspaper founded in 1912
  • In July 1996 this organ of Communist thought in Russia ceased publication after 84 years of "truth"
  • The "truth" is it was the Communist Party's newspaper in the USSR

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