Pravda Has New Look for 1990
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MOSCOW — The Communist Party daily Pravda gave itself a face-lift Monday, removing three medals that had adorned its front page for decades.
No explanation was given for the replacement of the medals--two Orders of Lenin and one Order of the October Revolution--by a portrait of V. I. Lenin on the paper’s masthead.
But the display of the medals is associated by many with lavish award-giving during the rule of now-disgraced Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev. Pravda received the two Orders of Lenin in 1945 and 1962 and was awarded the third medal under Brezhnev in 1972.
Other Soviet dailies continue to sport medals on their mastheads.
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