Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow. Joseph Stalin had dug into his mail sack of questions indefatigably asked by U.S. news correspondents. He picked out a tempting set sent in by I.N.S. Correspondent J. Kingsbury Smith, representing William Randolph Hearst. As a result, Hearstling Smith had a news beat, and Stalin had a good propaganda story circulated for him by the free U.S. press...
When a reporter asked them what would happen if two American flyers landed in Russia, they beamed and frankly declared: "The Russians would make their stay happy and make big propaganda around them." At one of their first stops in Richmond-the John Marshall Hotel-they announced that they were "hungry as dogs" and gobbled up free steak, vegetables and cream pie with unabashed enthusiasm...
When Joseph Stalin "replied" to a newspaperman's questionnaire late last month, he plunged the Western world into a whirlpool of violent controversy. Was Stalin's offer to meet President Truman behind the "iron curtain" made in good faith?--or was it only another sly twist in the Soviet propaganda campaign to split the Western defenses? The United States government has heavily inclined to the latter view and has consequently been excoriated or misunderstood by many people who sincerely believe that Stalin meant just exactly what he said...
...Soviet Union does not now desire such conferences. The Russians know how to do diplomatic business; they know that the way to got things done is not through the agency of the world press. In 1939, when Russia wanted to make a deal with Nazi Germany, the Soviet propaganda machine switched from an anti-Nazi Germany, the soviet propaganda machine switched from an anti-Nazi campaign to a conciliatory position, and the subsequent negotiations were all highly secret and ultra-diplomatic. The Russians are adept at international poker. They don't negotiate through the newspapers...
...many people. It was neatly timed to interfere with the Atlantic Alliance negotiations between Western powers. Why combine against the Soviet threat when there may be no threat at all?--this was an immediate reaction to Stalin's vague and friendly words, and it showed how devastating Russian propaganda...