Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, using "stupid" works of art as a propaganda means in times of unrest, as Soviet Russia frequently does today, rather than depicting a true and realistic glimpse of society, is deplorable. "No Hamlet or Lear could be produced," said Professor Matthiessen, "if pessimism were only a thing of the past...
Moscow's contingent (from the Soviet Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kirghizia, Kazakstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) got in some propaganda punches for Russia's brand of imperialism. Said the Armenian delegate: "My people were backward until we became a part of the U.S.S.R.; after this event our period of hardship ended forever." The Russian section had a formula for every problem: try Communism...
...Whole World Over (adapted from the Russian of Konstantine Simonov by Thelma Schnee; produced by Walter Fried & Paul F. Moss) is a Soviet comedy without a teaspoonful of Soviet propaganda. Indeed, even in the way of plot it would be hard to find anything less revolutionary. Laid in Moscow, the play deals with housing shortages, postwar readjustments and, above all, love-as they exist the whole world over...
Russia might stage an astute political retreat, while Communist propaganda would tap-tap on the U.S. conscience. Moscow indicated the line. Said Izvestia, in a bland and self-righteous editorial: "What is such monopolistic 'American responsibility' but a smoke screen for plans of expansion? Dilations to the effect that the United States is 'called upon to save' Greece and Turkey from expansion on the part of the so-called 'totalitarian states' are not new. Hitler also referred to the Bolsheviks when he wanted to open the road to conquests for himself...
...focus of the current world crisis was the Near East (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). A typical Russian propaganda picture recently pointed up Soviet preoccupation with that region. Obviously designed to please the strategically scattered Moslem millions, it showed faithful Mohammedans bent in prayer at a Moscow mosque. Soviet iconography included another striking symbol of the strange alliance and devious devotions of which Soviet policy is capable: a rug from Ashkhabad (capital of the Turkomen Soviet Socialist Republic), into which was woven the likeness of the late Prophet Karl Marx...