Talk:A Russian Journal

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I object to THIS sentence

"Being journalists, they were suspicious of the aggressive propaganda employed by their own American media and by the gradually increasing atmosphere of paranoia towards Russia, which portrayed the Communist peoples as robotic, fanatical and militaristic, (i.e. the "Communist Hordes")"

This (rather long) sentence, is a straight-forward example of obvious bias in this article. "They were suspicious of the aggressive propaganda (such as the sort shown by this sentence?) paranoia towards Russia (It isn't paranoia when they are out to get you!, just ask Poland or Hungary). The second part of the sentence isn't so bad... but sheesh.

The way A Russian Journal is discussed in the John Steinbeck article was much less biased and would probably work a lot better

In 1948 Steinbeck again toured the Soviet Union, together with renowned photographer Robert Capa. They visited Moscow, Kiev, Tbilisi, Batumi and the ruined Stalingrad. He wrote a humorous report-book about their experiences, A Russian Journal, which was illustrated with Capa's photos. Avoiding political topics and reporting about the life of simple Soviet peasants and workers, Steinbeck tried to generate more understanding toward people living in the Soviet Union, in a time when anti-Communism was widespread in the U.S. and the danger of war between the two countries was imminent

Please consider changing this V. Joe (talk) 18:19, 9 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What aboutdoing it yourselves?`'Míkka>t 21:34, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

news at 11... Details of Steinbeck's Communist ties are in his article. Moscow and Kiev (and Leningrad) were cities with highest standard of living in Russia, precisely because the government allowed foreigners to go there. 76.119.30.87 (talk) 02:40, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]