The Difficulty of Reporting From Moscow

In the Cold War days, issue misbehaved and they'd just tell you to go. But there were rules and a British or American journalist would not end up in jail. The big difference, of course, is that by 1979, there was no censorship. So self-censorship rather than enforced censorship was the rule of the day when I started. Back in the war days, the Soviet propaganda effort was really about suppressing what was going on. It was trying to paint a rosy picture of both the Red Army and conditions inside the Soviet Union and Moscow,. And this actually was what the allies wanted to hear. They wanted to keep Russia in the wars, though they weren't really