Pravda was a daily newspaper that tried to prove labor activism and expose the working conditions in Russian factories. The first paper of Pravda was issued on May 5, 1912 in St. Petersburg by the Bolshevik's of the Russian Social Democratic Party. The paper was closed eight times in the first two years and every time it closed, the Bolsheviks reopened it under a new name "Worker's Truth," etc. Pravda represents Squealer in the book Animal Farm because Squealer tells lies to try to get everybody to follow him and Napoleon as leaders. Pravda had two lives, one before and one after the revolution. Before the revolution, it was a big working-class newspaper with a lot of workers and writers around the paper. It served as the voice of the Bolshevik
