Being a cold warrior in the tradition of Ronald Reagan, I have always taken anything printed in Pravda with a grain bucket of salt. This misnomer of a newspaper could always be relied on to parrot the propaganda and misinformation of its patron, the Soviet government. I fondly remember Reagan’s reaction to one of Pravda’s many whoppers: "We have a word for that. It’s a word with a long and honored history in our rich agricultural tradition."
