Everyday Life in Eastern Europe Rudé Pravo, Housing Rudé Pravo
was the Czechoslovak equivalent of the Soviet newspaper Pravda.
Both were the official daily news publications of their
respective Communist governments; both depicted the official
version of truth about current events and conditions. Rudé Pravo
had a daily circulation of over one million, a fact attributable
not to its popularity but rather to the reality that it was the
official daily newspaper in a system that aimed to control the
dissemination of information (it is said that few people really
read it). The following document is a Foreign Broadcast
Information Service (FBIS) summary of a Rudé Pravo report on the
housing situation in Czechoslovakia. FBIS was a non-covert
information unit of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that
collected, translated, and disseminated open news from foreign
information sources (it still exists and with these functions,
but it 2005 it was placed under the Director of National
Intelligence). This document provi