Did the newspaper “Pravda” in 1951 call dollars empty, unfinished pieces of paper?

Recently, a picture of the first strip of the main Soviet newspaper has been distributed over the network, on which the American currency is given a derogatory characteristic. We checked whether such a note came out in reality.

December 27, 2022, Russian opposition politician Gennady Gudkov published tweet With the words "since 1951, propaganda in Russia (USSR) has not changed." This statement referred to the attached photograph of the first strip of the newspaper Pravda of March 1, 1951, where the following content was flaunted: “US dollars are empty, unprocessed papers, the United States of America itself is a colossus on clay legs, which really does not produce anything, and all the well -being of the US citizens is kept only on this, not supported by the real economy of the dollar. Moreover, the external debt of the United States is already surpassing GDP, and the country lives in debt, with which it is even theoretically impossible to pay. It turns out that the largest debtors are developed states with a strong, sustainable economy. And the USA is by no means the largest debtor; So, the UK has an external debt four times higher than its GDP. Why do they give a loan to these states, knowing that they are not able to pay off? ”

Gudkov, whose tweet caused a great resonance, was far from the first distributor of this photograph - in the fall and winter of 2022, she went around resources such as Joyreactor, Reddit, "YaPlakal"as well as a number Telegram-channels.

First, we pay attention to some features of the article presented in the picture.

1. The publication of the dollar is completely gained in semi -fat font, which is not character for the newspaper Pravda. In the articles of this publication, it was customary to highlight individual fragments (for example, quotes), but not the entire text.

2. The text of the article is characterized by a shade from all other graphic characters in the first lane of the room. Moreover, only in the article about dollars none of the letters over time lost the paint (this is noticeable by the absence of light points):

These were technical remarks. But there are also substantial ones.

1. At the time of the issue of the issue, the term "GDP" in Russian was practically not used. This should From the analysis of publications of the early 1950s.

2. Comparative statistics of external debt of countries Published World Bank since 1973. Until this moment, such data were available only selectively - public debt was much more running. Nevertheless, open data suggest that the external debt of Great Britain in the early 1950s composed about £ 2 million - the amount equivalent to not four GDP, but approximately one sixth-seventh its parts.

However, it would be the most reliable to see the newspaper number directly. IN Archive Newspapers "Pravda" Materials for the beginning of the 1950s are absent. Nevertheless specified release From March 1, 1951, you can find at some Internet ages. Here is his first strip:

As you can see, the number by many signs is the same, but the article on the left side of the first strip is completely different. It is called a “new decrease in retail prices” and is devoted to intra -Soviet realities. This is a rather sign for Soviet history - to it, in particular, in March 2020 Turned The Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov in his social networks.

Moreover, apparently, the basis for Photoshop was the picture posted on the auction site - identical pencil inscriptions and spots are visible in the photographs.

Where did the text placed on a viral picture come from? Dollars in Russian -speaking publications were also called empty, non -wealthy pieces of paper earlier - for example, this phrase can be found in the book of Maxim Kalashnikov "Global troublecrisis", First published in 2009. However, the whole fragment, apparently, is copied from the article "When the dollar collapses", Published in 2016 by a certain Leo Olshansky on the Prose.ru website. Moreover, Olshansky approached the topic critically (“A number of media convinced the Russians that US dollars are empty, unprocessed papers ...”), however, the authors of Fake turned the meaning of his words. Fake photo beginning spread On the network in the first decade of September 2022.

Photo on the cover: Telegram.

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