Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...amount of agitation or propaganda can break those shackles. Changing our < mentality has turned out to be the greatest problem for perestroika...
...Army. Although many experts agree with Halloran, any move in that direction would encounter huge political land mines. Harry Truman once tried to slash the Marines on the grounds that the Navy did not need its own army, but he was beaten by what he described as a Leatherneck "propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's." Aside from the clout of ten Senators and 21 Representatives in the current Congress who served in the Marines, the corps exudes such a mystical aura that it is unassailable...
Toward the end of July, Slavsky summoned me to the ministry. "Party secretaries have been calling from all over the country," he said, "demanding firm measures to put a stop to counterrevolutionary propaganda in my ministry." Of Reflections, he said, "It's a dangerous muddle. You criticize the leaders' privileges -- you've enjoyed the same privileges. Those who bear immense responsibilities, difficult burdens, deserve some advantages. It's for the cause...
...official banners that failed to brighten this sad city included two words: glasnost and demokratizatsiya. For the first time in the history of Soviet propaganda, those two words stand for genuine political virtues the leadership has introduced into the life of the citizenry. Yet in private conversation they often resonate with disappointment and foreboding, as though they were euphemisms for the messiness of current events and some vague chaos still to come...
...discovers some very interesting things. Like the fact that the Dutch government still pays a pension of about $11,000 a year to the widow of the country's deputy Nazi leader during the German Occupation, and that she unrepentantly spends part of the money to distribute neo-Nazi propaganda. Or that the monument the Soviets reluctantly built at Babi Yar is actually half a mile away from the ravine where thousands of Jews were slaughtered, and that in the process of building the monument the Soviets bulldozed Kiev's main Jewish cemetery...