“It was in April that I first made the journey to Kubitschek’s stronghold. Schnellroda is in a rural part of what was once East Germany, and getting there involved taking a train though a murky river valley past villages dotted with medieval castles, Gothic churches and drab apartment complexes built during the Communist era. As the train chugged farther into the valley, the towns looked increasingly forlorn.”
With great prejudice and before even getting to any intellectual part of the report, the propagandist for Pravda on the Hudson tries to set the scene as “darkly” as possible, of course hoping that dark emotions will also great the intellectual part when they get to it.
That is typical of the very best writing for Pravda on the Hudson - very political editorials masquerading as mere news or “reports”.
Yes :-) Most articles about him in the German press are similar. Usually, the German press copies what is written in the NYT. This time, it is the other way around. Except that the German articles are typically more openly negative.