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A historical account says critical materials led to penalties and local correspondents were killed to conceal conditions. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Soviet journalism gone with monsters of Soviet press · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:fe5d5bf1cab02d61ab689572d42cdaea2fa421c79f993576c8227ac61ea03988

Pravda also became an agency of state control. Critical materials would inevitably lead to administrative and court penalties. Local correspondents would simply be killed to conceal the real state of affairs from the central administration.