Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tells a deputy in Law and Order (1953), "two won't be any good." In fact, the author notes, the old cattle towns relied upon conscientious law enforcement; Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp were both forced out of Dodge City as troublemakers. During World War II, Reagan acted in propaganda films for the Army. Here, too, facts became servants of the Message, and they remained so in peacetime. "By the time I got out of the Army Air Corps," wrote Reagan in his autobiography, Where's The Rest of Me?, "all I wanted to do . . . was rest up awhile, make...
...that South Africa's blacks are inflicting on one another in segregated townships across the country. The bloodshed has made ungovernable many of the townships in which the country's 24 million blacks are forced to live and has given the government of State President P.W. Botha a potent propaganda weapon. Invariably referring to the slaughter as "black-on-black" violence, officials suggest that it proves blacks are too uncivilized to rule one another, much less the whites...
SOMETIMES, IN THE world of Soviet-American propaganda wars, one side scores a triumph which goes beyond the usual superficiality and sets people to thinking. So it was for the Soviet Union in the last days of 1986, when 50 Soviet emigres living in the United States voluntarily returned to their native country...
...level, the event was another example of the increasing sophistication of Soviet propaganda ministers under the leadership of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Government officials orchestrated the show by reversing a long-standing policy virtually barring the return of emigrants and then scheduling a large group to return on one day. The Soviet press gave heavy play to the arrivals, including some Jews, pronouncing that the sorry souls had found "ruthless competition, the spirit of money-making, crime and drug addiction" in America...
...CROWING IN Moscow elicited something more than the usual blithe dismissal of Soviet propaganda displays. Instead, some people on this side of the barbed-wire actually paused to consider the anomaly of refugees from totalitarianism repudiating life in America. Though they were not the first Soviet emigres to do an about face, the most recent repatriates made up the largest and most highly publicized group to do so. And even though the 50 represented a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of people who have left Russia in the last two decades, the existence of even a small number...