Party’s Over After 78 Years, Pravda Agrees
LONDON — Pravda, the daily paper of the Soviet Communist Party for more than 78 years, today will drop its link with the party from the paper’s masthead, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported Thursday.
Quoting the paper’s Moscow-based editor, the BBC said the masthead, which has long proclaimed the paper to be the “Organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party,” will starting today declare itself a “general political paper.”
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Pravda supported the abortive coup attempt against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The paper’s editor was nervously awaiting a call from the Kremlin, the BBC said.
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