Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lower Price? The Communist terms included: punishment of "war criminals"; uprooting of "traditional institutions" accepted by the Kuomintang; abrogation of "traitorous" treaties (one consistently attacked in Communist propaganda gives the U.S. the right to base naval forces at Tsingtao); convocation of a Political Consultative Conference . . . "to take over all power from the Kuomintang reactionary government"; and reorganization of Chinese armies...
...months a torrent of science propaganda has sluiced from Moscow's presses. Murky with Marxist doubletalk, it praises Soviet science, denounces Western science as the tool of capitalism and the slave of doctrinal errors, such as "idealism" and "formalism." Along with the orchids for Russia and brickbats for the West go long polemic discourses on such subjects as genetics and quantum mechanics. Most of it is far above the heads of the Russian (or any other) general public...
Latterly, the heaviest propaganda fire has been concentrated on one science-genetics. Russians, both before & after the revolution, excelled in genetics. But under Stalin the great school of Soviet geneticists led by Nikolai Vavilov has been utterly destroyed. Its members, who agreed in general with Western geneticists, have been disgraced and removed from their university posts. Some have died in forced labor camps. An obscure plant-breeder named Trofim Lysenko has been raised by the Soviet state to a sort of genetic dictator. Any Russian scientist who wants to work in genetics must bow low to Lysenko, though his doctrines...
...propaganda, Lysenkoism is promising. The so-called backward peoples of the world, to whom Communists are making an intense appeal, may like the suggestion that a better environment (provided, of course, by Communism) can turn their children, in one generation's time, into superiors of the strutting white men who have ruled them for centuries past...
...uncomfortable standards and stringent conditions. That accounts for a good deal of the hot air about, "federal dictation." The more imaginative opponents (not of aid, necessarily, but of controls) picture a gigantic Washington bureau sending out hatchet-men by the score to bulldoze teachers into pumping unconstitutional propaganda down the maw of American Youth...