“From the Soviet Information Bureau …”, the agency “RIA-Novosti” reports, “Russia Today” informs … after these lines, the heart of the whole huge country stops. Either from grief, as in the years of the Great Patriotic War, or from joy, as on April 12, 1961, when the first earthling Yuri Gagarin saw our planet from the window.
Anything has happened in 80 years. Yes, that is how long one of the oldest news agencies in the world exists. The Sovinformburo was formed a few days after the Nazi attack on the USSR – on June 24, 1941, as the main messenger of what is happening on the fronts and in civilian life. And it also became the first body of foreign policy propaganda in the history of the country, broadcasting about the country of Soviets to the whole world.
Over time, it was called by different names (Sovinformburo, Novosti, Ria-Novosti, MIA Rossiya Segodnya). One thing is invariable – it is always the freshest and most relevant information. Information that is trusted and guided by millions – from ordinary people and journalists of numerous media, to leaders of countries.
Of course, reports from the Soviet Information Bureau appeared many times on the pages of Komsomolskaya Pravda. During the war years, in sparse, clear and laconic lines in which, at times, dramas, victories, defeats, losses and exploits were sewn up. In modern times, information from numerous “Sputniks” (a subdivision of MIA “Russia Today” in the countries of the world) is the first to fly to our editorial office, and as practice shows, it turns out to be the most reliable.
Many young talents who later became famous writers and recognized geniuses worked in the Sovinformburo – Korney Chukovsky, Mikhail Sholokhov, Boris Polevoy, Alexander Fadeev, Valentin Kataev, Alexey Tolstoy, Ilya Erenburg. And of course it is difficult to imagine a bureau without the famous Yuri Levitan. His deep and dear already voice, protection in the DNA of the historical code of the country.
By the way, “Komsomolskaya Pravda” once published an unknown interview with the famous announcer. Our columnist Leonid Repin, it turns out, in his youth talked a lot with the famous Levitan. In the House of Cinema in the 50s, where on Wednesdays they showed foreign films, the premieres of which Yuri Borisovich tried not to miss. The master and junior then talked before the sessions. Coming home, Lenya Repin, who later became the golden pen of “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, wrote down the content of these conversations in a notebook. But he published the recorded only after the death of the famous announcer.
Here are some excerpts from that material.
“- Remember that June 22, 1941?”
– Sure. I got a phone call at home – they urgently called me to work. This had happened before, but then something shrank in me … I arrived, and there everyone was assembled, and everyone had such faces … Nobody laughed, did not joke … They spoke for some reason in an undertone … And no one asked anyone about anything … Then they called from the Kremlin, warned that there would be an important government message. Molotov's speech was broadcast at 12 o'clock. After him, I read this official statement of the government about the beginning of the war. ”
Today MIA Rossiya Segodnya employs many talented journalists from different countries. It is an international media group that brings together the international agency Sputnik and sites in 32 languages, the leading Russian news agency and the RIA Novosti website, as well as projects such as PRIME, Ukraina.ru, Baltnews, TOK, and many others.
Komsomolskaya Pravda congratulates MIA Rossiya Segodnya. He wants more good news and broadcast them for many, many years to come.
