"Swear and testify perjury, but do not divulge secrets."
One of the commandments of the Albigensians
History in documents. We ended the material "The newspaper" Pravda "about the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940" with an excerpt from the newspaper "Pravda", which wrote: "The White Finns, - writes the Swedish newspaper" Nu dag "…" Once again, we note that the greatest enemies of the USSR inside the country were his own journalists, who officially worked for a salary. But this is so, for a warm-up. And then we will talk about the fact that the newspaper "Pravda" in 1939, even outwardly for some reason, was very different from the newspaper of 1940. Yes, the praises addressed to Comrade Stalin have survived, but they have become much less numerous. There is only one large portraits of him, next to Lenin, and that one is in the graphics, but there are many photographs of Marshal Timoshenko. There are also significantly fewer photographic materials than in 1939, even less than in our Penza newspaper Stalin's banner. The cartoons have disappeared, although many hand-drawn maps have appeared with the course of hostilities on the Western Front. There were more articles on the military theme, but the word "saboteur" disappeared from the pages altogether. Either they were all caught, or those that remained, changed their minds and stopped harming.
Well, now let's see the photos …
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What is especially surprising when viewing two newspapers at once: local and central? Very scant coverage of events at the front. Much more attention is paid to the protesting workers of England and Denmark than to our soldiers and commanders who have borne the weight of this war on their shoulders. It is clear that there was no need to write about frozen people and abandoned equipment, but you can express everything in words. And were there really few examples of courage and heroism then? After all, the portraits of those awarded with orders and the title of Hero "Pravda" posted regularly. Well, why not tell about them, take an interview?
Again, no one demanded to write the truth in it, it was necessary to write "as it should", and then even the interviewee himself would understand it correctly. But such a powerful educational moment at that time was completely missed. After reading, there is a feeling of some kind of dissatisfaction, understatement, and this simply should not be in working with the masses.
And this is not a discovery of today and not a modern afterthought. Even Lenin wrote about this in his work "What is to be done", but the journalists and those who directed them at that time simply could not help but read it and take notes. But somewhere, something, apparently, did not grow together.
