Originally posted by Nilsen
I remember when i was a kid. There was a show on the local radio on saturday nights. The topic was.. "This week in Pravda" They translated and made abit fun of the Soviet news. Basicly every week was... Production is up!, victory on all fronts!.
Depended on a newspaper. Every paper had a special target group. We subscribed to: Pravda (Father was a Party member), Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star , military newspaper, he was also an officer), Izvestiya (less biased paper) Literaturnaya Gazeta (a "humanitarian" weekly for "inteligensia"), then some monthly magazines from literature like Noviy Mir or Oktyabr' to Nauka i Zhizn' (Science and Life).
Most popular newspaper was Trud (Labour), "proletarian" newspaper, "everything made simple". My Grand- Aunt always subscribed to Pionerskaya Pravda, paper for school-children, two issues weekly, it always had all political issues made easy, so a 12-years old kid could understand everything.