"… what benefit will I bring you if there is no revelation, no knowledge, no prophecy, no instruction in my words?"
First Epistle to the Corinthians 14: 6
History and documents. Today we turn to a very interesting newspaper. Not central, local, which used to be called "Rabochaya Penza", but then at the end of the 30s was naturally renamed "Stalin's banner". However, there was not too much local in it, because a lot of space was occupied by reprints from the newspaper Pravda. Now all the local newspapers write about the local, and the central ones - about the central, then it was different. And partly correct. Anyone who read one newspaper read them all.
We will read the newspaper for 1939. And immediately we note that what may not have caught the eye of contemporaries can be clearly seen with consecutive viewing. Every year the newspapers of that time look different. Individual words change in them, themes change in them, photographs change in them. The characters of the photographs change in them. For example, in 1937 the noun "saboteur" and the adjective "sabotage" were popular. In 1939, they no longer meet. But what then the thesis about the intensification of the class struggle as it progresses?..
You see how it was then: at all halts, amateur performances were organized, everyone sang Soviet songs, and those who did not know them learned. This information is very good for writers. The finished scene in the novel. Our fighter met a local girl and teaches her the song: "Should we stand still, in our daring we are always right …"
In my opinion, the collection turned out to be interesting, showing how the press and the country lived then.
Well, if someone wants something else, let him try to write about that time based on the materials of his regional newspaper. It will be very interesting to compare.
