The way the world image is created was even worse back in the USSR. Yet people had a cool mechanism to turn it down - they never believed a word the Soviet propaganda was telling them, and totally disrespected the Soviet mass media system for their total lies on any more or less important subject. They knew it was pretty cool out there, and that it was them who lived in hell. Having said this, I just wanna ask one question: what's happened to the Russian people since then???