Its stated aim was "to assist in the development of British-Soviet friendship by providing an objective picture of Soviet life and opinion.
The final issue was that of 5 December 1991,[5] three weeks before the Soviet Union was dissolved.
Mary Rosser-Hicks (1937-2010), the future chief executive of the Peoples Printing Press socialist daily the Morning Star, worked for the paper until 1975,[8] as did South African anti-apartheid activist Shanthie Naidoo during the early 1970s.
[10] The comedian and writer Alexei Sayle has described how this was the newspaper his Communist parents read during his upbringing in Liverpool in the 1950s and 1960s.
[11] As a child growing up in Glasgow, Graham McTavish, who played Dougal MacKenzie in the TV adaptation of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series, recounts surprise in learning no other child's family had Soviet Weekly delivered.