And I pointed out that the soviet propaganda was abundant and the western propaganda was next to unknown to the soviet people.
And to the extent that Soviet people knew about western propaganda, they (reportedly) sometimes had to resort to such extraordinary measures as making homemade audio recordings on old X-ray films and secretly trading them, in order to avoid being arrested for dissident activities.



Thus, while Hanna makes some good points about commercial messages and FoxNews (for example) being a type of "propaganda" that shapes/distorts our thinking, the fact that самиздат had practically no analogue in 20th-century Western life (because there was no need for it) should caution us against treating Soviet and Western propaganda as "two sides of the same coin".