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Pravda, 18 Desember 1961, no. 353 (Kongres IV Gerwani)

Pravda, 18 Dec 1961: Fourth Gerwani Congress (excerpt)

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Pravda no. 353, 18 December 1961 (excerpt of the page). Page 3 has a dispatch by correspondent O. Skalkin from Jakarta on the Fourth Gerwani Congress: 400 delegates from Java, Moluccas, Sumatra, Bali, Kalimantan; Sukarno's speech condemning anti-communism, backing NASAKOM and the West Irian claim, and praising Soviet support. No Gerwani members named.

Pravda no. 353, 18 Desember 1961 (kutipan halaman). Halaman 3 memuat laporan koresponden O. Skalkin dari Jakarta tentang Kongres IV Gerwani: 400 delegasi dari Jawa, Maluku, Sumatra, Bali, Kalimantan; pidato Sukarno yang mengecam antikomunisme, mendukung NASAKOM dan klaim Irian Barat, serta memuji dukungan Soviet. Tidak ada anggota Gerwani yang disebut.

“p. 3: 'Four hundred women delegates of this mass organisation from Java, the Moluccas, Sumatra, Bali, Kalimantan and other islands have gathered in Djakarta.' Sukarno: 'We must not be infected with the disease of anti-communism.'”

People

SukarnoO. Skalkin

Organisations

Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani)Communist Party of Indonesia

Places

JakartaJavaMalukuSumatraBaliKalimantanWest New Guinea (Papua)

Events

Fourth Gerwani Congress

Topics

congresses and meetingsGerwani organisationWest Irian campaignUSSR and Eastern Europepropaganda and media

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speech textsnippet onlywire report

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Date
1961
Creator
Pravda
Publication
Pravda
Document type
newspaper article (newspaper or periodical article/page (text transcription/OCR))
Language
Russian
Perspective
Socialist-bloc/solidarity press
Source role
primary
Country
USSR
Period
1960–1965
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Internet Archive full-text search · source link
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01 Primary Sources/1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals/Soviet and East European press (1946-1990) - Pravda, Izvestiia, Soviet Woman, Hungarian papers (East View, archive.org, Hungaricana)/Pravda (1961) - No. 353, Fourth Congress of Gerwani [archive.org 1961353_2336].txt
OCR / text
Poor (0.737) · proof-reading: key passages (Claude, Oct 2026) · translation: yes
Collection
01 Primary Sources › 1.5 Newspapers and Periodicals › Soviet and East European press (1946-1990) - Pravda, Izvestiia, Soviet Woman, Hungarian papers (East View, archive.org, Hungaricana)
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