Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact was that Mao Tse-tung's whole "year-of-the-big-leap" policy had been a fiasco, botched by bad planning, and straining fields, farmers and transport. Red China had already sheepishly begun to retreat from its propaganda claims when providentially the government found a way to shift much of the blame: nature this spring took a cruel hand in China, as it so often has before. While flooding rains fell over huge chunks of Central China, the provinces of Kirin and Hopei were parched by drought. In Szechwan, a force of 40 million Chinese was working desperately...
Having failed so ignobly to pull off a general strike in May of 1958, Spam's tiny but tightly organized Communist Party was determined that this year would be different. In the biggest flood of anti-Franco propaganda ever, they printed up hundreds of thousands of leaflets to prepare the workers to do their part when Radio Espana Independiente in Communist Prague gave the signal. To some of these leaflets they signed the names of liberal and Roman Catholic organizations that had not even been consulted. "A truly national movement!" cried the Communist radio. But when...
...Reds' mystery man, one "Jimenez Lara," on one of his underground trips into Spain. Most of the other 150 alleged "underground leaders" rounded up before the general strike were, however, non-Communist and Roman Catholic moderates who, though opposed to Franco, seek to disprove Franco's favorite propaganda line-"Either Franco or the Communists...
Through it all, Kassem continues to let himself be used as a propaganda front man at Communist rallies. Kassem seems to believe everything the Reds have to say about the iniquities of the West. Still, he quietly rejects their more obvious efforts to gain more control in Iraq. To groups of soldiers last week, the general repeated his credo: "I shall never belong to any party. I advise you not to allow any specific party to penetrate your ranks...
...purpose behind the coordinated attacks on the U.S. by the Soviet press is clear: it is an effort to cut the U.S. exposition down to U.S.S.R. size before it opens and to give Russians the impression that it is sheer propaganda with no relation to reality...