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Manchester Evening News
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Alice Richardson

Row breaks out after Tory leader rebrands council newsletter as communist propaganda

A row has broken out after Trafford ’s Conservative group leader rebranded a council newsletter as communist propaganda.

Coun Nathan Evans took to Twitter yesterday (Tuesday March 29) to share a photoshopped image of a council residents’ newsletter that he entitled ‘Pravda’.

Pravda (Russian for ‘truth’) was the name of the Russian state-owned newspaper that distributed communist ideology from when Lenin was in power in 1912 up until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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