Istina is also a Russian word for truth, although it means homely, everyday truths such as if you let go of a cup at waist level it will fall to the floor and break. That’s as opposed to Pravda meaning revealed truth (Party Truth during Communism). I understand that Lenin used to complain “Don’t bother me with a mass of petty istinas.”

There is no Pravda in Izvestia, and there is no Izvestia in Pravda.

Pravda is literally truth/the truth, and Izvestia is literally news/the news(in this context anyway), thus There is no truth in The News, and no news in The Truth.

Nice to see no much has changed. :/

That’s right. The Moon people had been spying on Earth and knew that humans were savage and warlike, and so kicked the humans off the Moon (after stealing lovers/doctors Sigrid and Selim, oh, and the cats). But even though the humans were forced to leave, the aliens froze North America!

But the men drew lots and Heinrich, the Nazi’s son, and Polish-Israeli Ruskin got the short straws and had to drop the atomic bomb into Popocatepetl.

Commie Frenchman Martel tried to sabotage the bomb, but Good Russian braggart Orloff (who had been wounded earlier) held him off until the hunky American captain could coldcock him.

Then the bomb is dropped and Heinrich and Ruskin die, but the trick doesn’t work. But the Moon people are so impressed by their self-sacrifice that they relent and unfreeze North America. They keep the cats, though.

It’s all here.