Soviet propaganda relied on a centralized press controlled by the Communist Party, and the KGB’s active measures used that press to launder and amplify disinformation. Stories planted abroad, often in small foreign publications, were picked up and repeated by major Soviet outlets, giving them wider reach and an appearance of independent confirmation. This section covers the main Soviet newspapers used this way, the party newspaper Pravda and the government newspaper Izvestia, and the figures who shaped their output.
