Thread: Western Propaganda aka клюква lol

Originally Posted by BappaBa

Показательно, что Eric C. не смог припомнить ни одного равного по тупизне и ненависти советского фильма про американцев, и переключился на демонстрации.

Here I partly agree with you. There weren't really many anti American nasty propaganda movies in the USSR. But considering such movies a sort of propaganda, you can't really say it's the only one. The USSR didn't really need them because it pushed forward other, way more effective sorts of propaganda. In my previous post I was simply clarifying what they were.

Originally Posted by Eric C.

Here I partly agree with you. There weren't really many anti American nasty propaganda movies in the USSR.

There were no nasty anti-American movies of such a magnitude in the USSR. Period.

What about other kinds of anti-American propaganda, it existed, and, funnily enough, it was largely true (even if it was full of pathos and ugly rhetoric). After all, there were homeless and unemployed, there were riots, drug wars and a cult of money, race discrimination (which was very much in place during 60's), military invasions, etc.etc. But thankfully there were no films about an army of American commandos, played by intentionally ugly people clad in cowboy boots, attacking Kremlin. Soviet scriptwriters apparently had some self-respect.

Originally Posted by Eric C.

The USSR didn't really need them because it pushed forward other, way more effective sorts of propaganda. In my previous post I was simply clarifying what they were.

How effective could it have been? It didn't work on you, that's for sure!
Seems that you were severely affected by the American propaganda, despite not even living there. Which just proves the point.
If you have any examples of this "effective" and convincing USSR propaganda, let's see it!

Until you come up with some hard evidence, I maintain that America has and always had, considerably more effective and all encompassing propaganda than a some red banners, stars and murals in the USSR.

Gosh, in the USA, there is even a commercial break on TV every 10 minutes, to advertise what essentially adds up to "the American dream". At least in the USSR, people could watch TV relatively uninterupted. We've already established elsewhere that there is roughly the same amount of ideological and nationalistic influence in children, and that the USA had considerably more films and TV series depicting the enemy in a negative light.

So let's see some examples of this super efficient USSR propaganda that you are talking about, Eric!