Krasnaya Zvezda

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Красная звезда
Red star newspaper cropped.jpg
description Soviet / Russian military newspaper
First edition 1924
Frequency of publication daily (Tue – Sat)
Sold edition 70,000 copies
(1998)
Web link redstar.ru
Article archive six months retrospectively
ZDB 895303-x

Krasnaja Swesda ( Russian Красная звезда , Red Star ) is an originally Soviet military newspaper. It was founded on January 1, 1924. Today it is the central body of the Russian Ministry of Defense .

In 1939 Major General Yevgeny Boltin (1900–1981) was appointed editor-in-chief, from 1955 Lieutenant General Nikolai Makejew (1911–1988) was editor-in-chief, who was deposed by Gorbachev in 1985 after thirty years in office .

During the German-Soviet War, the following wrote for the newspaper as war reporters : Michail Scholochow , Alexei Tolstoy , Konstantin Simonow , Andrei Platonow , Wassili Grossman and Ilja Ehrenburg .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Volume 4. Routledge, London 1998, p. 677.
  2. ^ Yale Richmond: Practicing public diplomacy: a Cold War odyssey . Berghahn Books, New York 2008, ISBN 978-1-8454-5475-3 , pp. 82-83.