Okay so I was wondering why Stalin got the most flack of the Cold War propaganda, at least in my experience growing up in the U.S., He’s the only Soviet Leader we were “taught” about. Sorry if this is dumb.
Okay so I was wondering why Stalin got the most flack of the Cold War propaganda, at least in my experience growing up in the U.S., He’s the only Soviet Leader we were “taught” about. Sorry if this is dumb.
I’d say a lot of it has to do with Operation Paperclip. It’s much easier to translate Nazi war propaganda presenting Stalin and the Soviet Union as evil bloodthirsty monsters, than coming up with fresh propaganda.
After that, you just build on top of the manufactured outrage. Come up with the most outlandish accusations. Who’s gonna challenge you? You can destroy entire careers if they dare.
This. What makes it even more remarkably successful was that Nazi propaganda was remarkably well researched, documented and developed.
What I am saying is that the propaganda was very well developed, they researched sociology, psychology and much more to develop that kind of propaganda. It was real science.