Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have suspected Maclean's hand in the skillful phrasing of Bulganin's two recent "peace" notes to President Eisenhower. But the circumstances of the hotel interview indicated that, though they might be useful in phrasing messages, the Russians regard the two ex-diplomats as no more than propaganda puppets...
Macdonald cited the value of athletics in the propaganda world as "inestimable." "All over the world, sports are a common denominator between nations. Once the United States team is chosen, it represents our country and therefore should make as creditable a showing as possible...
...Virgin Land" is Soviet propaganda's term for an unsettled stretch of central Siberian steppe, about the size of the two Dakotas, that Party Secretary Khrushchev grandiosely planned to put under wheat in just two seasons. Ploughs and tractors were brought hastily from the Ukraine. Tens of thousands of Komsomols (Young Communists), most of them without farm experience, were dumped on the steppe and told it was their sacred duty to produce...
Khrushchev's propaganda push for the Virgin Land has made it a favorite front-page subject in Pravda, a heroic subject for Soviet moviemakers, and the inspiration for at least two Moscow plays. But since Russian playwrights have also been instructed to get more credible realism into their turgid propaganda drama, the exhortations have been marked by some surprising candor...
...side with luxury, Nazi and Communist bullyboys in the streets, cynicism as heavy as the makeup on the faces of the omnipresent prostitutes. The Threepenny Opera echoed that city. Vaguely based on John Gay's 18th century original, the German libretto by Poet Bert Brecht (now a propaganda wheel in East Germany) had a vicious underdog snarl ("First fill our bellies, then talk morality") and magnificent, vulgar humor. Like the rest of the work, Mack the Knife* was a bitter satire of society and of schmalzy, popular music; it gave a ragtime catalogue of murder, arson and rape...