Pravda was once one of the house organs of the communists who ruled the Soviet Union and hence became a punchline for jokes concerning the twisting of reality for the sake of propaganda.
The sobriquet “Pravda West” became used for American old-media institutions like The Philadelphia Inquirer and The New York Times because they showed the same propensity regarding the reporting of matters involving liberal causes and the Democratic Party.
Well it looks like we can no longer use that phrase anymore. Check out this article from Pravda.ru: Americans never give up your guns.
The world has certainly turned upside down.
Just for clarification: The Pravda.ru website actually is Russian, but is not a direct-line successor to the original “Pravda” that was the voice of the Communist Party there back in the bad old days.
But this website still represents the enormous progress that has been made there, doesn’t it? Before the Iron Curtain fell, both the website’s owner and his/her guest editorialist Stanislav Mishin would have ended up in Siberia on a one-way train. Now they are free to express their views as they like. Good for them!