Faux Soviet Style Propaganda Organ Used to Defend Church: Why Not?

The report that Pravda was somehow behind the last amazing defense of the Church and the Holy Father was interesting but too much for the truth. It's really an amazing kind of hoax, like a piece of Soviet Era artwork, or military equipment put to good use after the apparent fall of its originators from political prominence in the early nineties. We found this from the Anglo-Catholic, here.

As a Russianist, I think I should probably point out that this website isn’t that of the Communist pravda (which still exists, is still communist, and has a website at www.gazeta-pravda.ru) but an on-line only publication with the same name, that isn’t communist (and doesnt’ really have any political orientation as such, beyond a taste for general sensationalism and love of conspiracy theories) that was set up in the late 1990s – I think by former staff of the paper. I can only presume that they chose the name (and logo) as an attempt at false representation (of a kind that was fairly common in the Russian media in the 1990s/early 2000s). It doesn’t have any print equivalent; and I sometimes wonder even if it is a professional publication, rather than a hobby of a Russian-speaker, an English-speaker and a Portuguese-speaker.

Which is, of course, not to say, that this sort of article isn’t welcome. Just that it’s not really from “Pravda”, not the “Pravda” that is actually read and sold in Russian news kiosks. (A quick search of THEIR online archive suggests that that publication has barely if at all touched the question of the abuse stories in the church).