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Skillful? Oh, no! It was too primitive and straightforward and was really effective only along with extensive terror, which was over at 1953.
I'm not so sure about that. I mean, I don't think our grandparents were all stupid and cowards. I think the opposite would better reflect the reality. People were idealistic, progressive, strove to overthrow worn and torn stigmas etc. I think the communistic ideology is smart and cunning, not the primitive and straightforward.

Quote Originally Posted by it-ogo View Post
When a brainwashed person hears something
like the word "USA"
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(s)he suffers an uncontrollable negative emotional reaction
exactly. Even if you watch the reaction of Hanna some of the forum members here, you'd notice that. And that being said of the [relatively] open and intellectual members. Now, can you notice what kind of reaction the word "exploitation" causes in our Soviet minds?

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This is just disgusting and has nothing to do with faces of truth.
Not really. Do you strongly associate "black" with evil and "white" with good? Most people do. But, the KKK members, for example, wore white robes. Were they good or evil? Black or white? It's all relative, as usual.

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I believe that everything is possible without brainwashing effects. Even faith. Brainwashing phenomenon is an evil, which can be avoided completely.
I don't think the brainwashing is evil. It's just a part of the culture.