There is an old Soviet joke. “Pravda” is the Russian word for “truth” and there is was also a newspaper in Soviet times called Izvestiya which is the Russian word for “information.” The joke was: “There is no truth in Izvestiya and there is no information in Pravda.” These publications were instruments of the Soviet state, reporting lies and propaganda to the people of the country so they could be better controlled and managed, like sheep.
Source: https://dyingrussia.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/there-is-no-truth-in-pravda/
