"During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and red

Still reminding how parenti is still relevant. If the russian army issues these light snacks, they say its to lure little childrens and becone rapist. But if actual neat meal like idk a meat, they say something like the food being rotten or stolen. Its the same with the other scenarios, If the Russians deliberatly bombing actual targets like military installations, they’d spin it and make it that the russians bombing civillians, but if the russians are helping the civillians by aid, theyd says the russians would rape them soon, kidnapped them, or whatever alligations would be.

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Totally legit. No way some rabid russophobe just put dildo and viagra inside ration pack, amrite?

If you could add some sort of content warning or mark this nsfw that would be nice

Englishman: sees tasty food “Is this a WMD?”

“Sir this is a box of crackers.”

Yes because that’s how you allocate state resources, Military grade dildo and crackers.

I’m at a loss for words

Finally, my state-issued dildo.

God, I can feel the Ancient Roman gladiator penis magic radiating off those bicuits XD