A Soviet magazine broke another taboo by publishing a scathing attack on a subject that had been inviolate.
Soviet magazines or newspapers never reviewed the films, there were no audience surveys, and no records exist of how many people viewed the films.
Mr. Williams also told reporters that the picture was one of six that now appear to have come from Soviet magazines.
From 1946 until his death he was chief editor of the prestigious, though after 1944 Soviet controlled literary magazine Looming (Estonian for "creation").
"This is a spectacular proposal," he said in an interview with a Soviet magazine.
Andrey Gubin's father worked as a research worker and caricaturist for many Soviet magazines.
A new Soviet magazine, Journal of Journals, offers samples from samizdat publications.
Prokofiev consequently provided a statement to a Soviet magazine protesting these accusations.
The diary stayed private until 1962, when the family allowed a Soviet magazine to publish it.
The article in the Soviet illustrated weekly magazine Ogonyok was a masterpiece of bare-knuckled brevity.