Khrushchev Cartoon Strip
(Special Crspdt. N.Z.PA.) i LONDON, Aug. 4. | Mr Nikita Khrushchev is the main character in a strip cartoon which has just made its appearance in a Russian publication, savs the “Daily Mail.”' The former Kremlin chief is lampooned for mispronouncing Russian words like Imperialism, communism and socialism. Mr Khrushchev, who has a strong Ukranian accent, gives the words a soft ending so that they come out like imperialithm, communithm and socialithm. The point of the cartoon is that when someone at the top —harking back to Mr Khrushchev’s better days—mispro-
inounces words or introduces some other undesirable trend [far too many underlings tend
;,to follow suit. Apparently the I K-style caught on. II The cartoon’s appearance, an unheard of thing until now, is one more part of an emerging “new image” for Russia’s press that ranges from the introduction of Western-style advertising to its way of looking at the world.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30822, 6 August 1965, Page 11
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