Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regime, for the first time, Communist propaganda began to circulate freely in Guatemala. Young Ladino intellectuals-notably such present-day government advisers as Josè Manuel Fortuny, Victor Manuel Gutierrez, Carlos Manuel Pellecer and Alfredo Guerra Borges-soaked up Marxian ideas. U.S.-educated Maria Arbenz became interested, and she and Fortuny guided Arbenz, no heavyweight thinker, to read some popularized explanations of Communist theory...
This exposure to anti-capitalist propaganda did not stop Arbenz from piling up capitalist wealth for himself. As Arèvalo's Defense Minister, he could borrow and invest money from state banks, acquire businesses, land, and homes. Soon he was rich enough to invite Costa Rica's leading Communist to dinner at a luxurious villa and well enough briefed to discuss Marxist ideas with his guest. If Arbenz had been a widely traveled or broadly educated man, he might have been more skeptical, but in Guatemala there were actually rigid social stratifications and reactionary landlords, just...
...short-term bill whooped through, 281 to 53. Prospects were that it would sail through the Senate too, where Democrats-including Gore-seemed content to rest on their propaganda victory...
...bullyboy in the paramilitary nationalist Freikorps, and as a poison-pen rightist journalist, Dertinger helped kill off the democratic Weimar Republic. When Hitler came in, he became an official in Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry, with a big picture of Von Ribbentrop on his desk. Then when the Russians arrived, Georg confided to a friend, "I will walk the tightrope over Communism as surely as I did over Naziism...
...would be a sorry thing if in resisting totalitarianism we were to accept the counsels of the frightened and adopt its methods.... Our job is to educate free, independent and vigorous minds capable of distinguishing truth from propaganda, and truth from half truth and lies...