Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Pravda survives! :) - just as bad as it supposedly was!

So since today marks 70 years since the start of WW2 - and since the Russian invasion of Poland has suddenly caught my fancy (mainly the Molotov dude), I decided to check what Pravda "the OFFICIAL voice of the USSR) does today.

So I Googled it and was pretty amazed to see the site I went to (Pravda.ru), still having a major cold war hangover. Articles on the latest Russian weapons, an article on an aircraft the US made to drop nukes on Russia - and also an article stating how Germany alone was not responsible for the start of WW2 and that England was heavily involved... awesome fun stuff.

After a little more searching I figured that Pravda pretty much got shut down when the USSR fell and that the site was started by ex Pravda employees. HA! - but the site is definitely a fun read.

P.S it is strange that the amount of factual information be so tiny (comparitively) on a guy who survived very comfortably through practically every purge in the USSR - except for Khrushchev's. For the few who do read the crap i write if you have any info/ good book on Vyacheslav Molotov lemme know.

3 comments:

Shez said...

did you check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Molotov?

Popajan Banana said...

Thank you wise Shez - I never thought of looking in WIKIPEDIA!!

Zaev Dutt said...

Look up Molotov Cocktail!!