Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...have a problem to face if we're out there alone, swaying in the wind," he argued. "If we are the only nation not to appear in the Games, what good would this do?" Asked about the 1936 Olympics, which had been cited as a propaganda triumph for Adolf Hitler that Soviet leaders are now seeking to emulate, Kane objected to such "rewritten history" and contended: "Jesse Owen destroyed the myth of Aryan supremacy in 1936. It was a propaganda victory for our wonderful black athletes in the United States...
Moscow may have been taken aback by the worldwide condemnation of its invasion of Afghanistan, but all its trumpets of propaganda blared denial and defiance. The Afghanistan rebellion had to be suppressed, went the Kremlin line, and so the Soviet army had to suppress it. "To have acted otherwise," said Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, "would have meant leaving Afghanistan a prey to imperialism." Furthermore, said Brezhnev, Afghanistan was not even the cause of the current crisis. Said he: "If there were no Afghanistan, certain circles in the U.S. and in NATO would have found another pretext to aggravate...
...words were recorded and made available as public service and propaganda by Troy Soos, 22, who heads a group of aggressive unbelievers affiliated with Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair. Like so many missionaries, Soos is not into soft sell or subtlety. He informs callers that the Bible is the "Christians' fictitious novel." But many of the people who accept his offer to reply, on a recording device, are equally blunt. Several have expressed regrets that atheists are no longer burned at the stake. One shouted: "Kill! Kill! Kill...
...order to quell the rebellion as quickly as possible and set Karmal firmly in the saddle. Then, U.S. officials predict, the Kremlin would probably want to pull out as many of the troops as possible-though some tens of thousands would have to remain-and go on a propaganda offensive trumpeting the "stability" of Afghanistan. "They don't want to stay in there," one policy expert said of the Soviets. "They're putting a lot in to get it over with quickly...
...says, "I'm not a chick singer," she is not so much handing down a manifesto as setting up an aesthetic credo. Mas has no special interest in forcing some shotgun wedding of feminist politics and rock; neither do the others. They sing songs of personal reflection, not propaganda. But the rock business will not let you forget how you look...