Cold War propaganda

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 45. Chapters: Propaganda of the Soviet Union, Stakhanovite movement, And you are lynching Negroes, Propaganda in the Soviet Union, Eastern Bloc information dissemination, Denial of the Holodomor, World Federation of Democratic Youth, Active measures, Falsifiers of History, Stalin's ten blows, Soviet Propaganda Music during the Cold War, Pavlik Morozov, The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Monumental propaganda, Seat 12, Soviet Anti-Zionism, Information Research Department, Alexey Stakhanov, Shelling of Mainila, Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public, Agitprop, East German Cold War Propaganda, Soviet people, Pasha Angelina, Viktor Deni, Blue Blouse, International Organization of Journalists, Nurkhon, Finland - Soviet Union Peace and Friendship Society, Workers' Youth Theatre, Der Emes, Soviet Information Bureau, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge, Nikita Izotov, Brezhnev's trilogy, Kukryniksy group. Excerpt: Communist propaganda in the Soviet Union was extensively based on the Marxism-Leninism ideology to promote the Communist Party line. In societies with pervasive censorship, the propaganda was omnipresent and very efficient. It penetrated even social and natural sciences giving rise to various pseudo-scientific theories like Lysenkoism, whereas fields of real knowledge, as genetics, cybernetics, and comparative linguistics were condemned and forbidden as "bourgeois pseudoscience". With "truths repressed, falsehoods in every field were incessantly rubbed in in print, at endless meetings, in school, in mass demonstrations, on the radio". The main Soviet censorship body, Glavlit, employed seventy thousand full-time staff not only to eliminate any undesirable printed materials, but also "to ensure that the correct ideological spin was put on every published item". Telling anything against the "Party line" was punished by imprisonment or through punitive psychiatry. "Today a man only talks freely to his wife - at night, with the blankets pulled over his head", said writer Isaac Babel privately to a trusted friend According to Robert Conquest, "All in all, unprecedented terror must seem necessary to ideologically motivated attempts to transform society massively and speedily, against its natural possibilities. The accompanying falsifications took place, and on a barely credible scale, in every sphere. Real facts, real statistics, disappeared into the realm of fantasy. History, including the History of the Communist Party, or rather especially the history of the Communist Party, was rewritten. Unpersons disappeared from the official record. A new past, as well as new present, was imposed on the captive minds of the Soviet population, as was, of course, admitted when truth emerged in the late 1980s". An important goal of Communist propaganda was to create a new man. Schools and the Communist youth organizations, like Soviet pioneers and Komsomol, served to remove children fr