Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France's national income is still mired today where it stood in 1929. In a generation, our country has made no progress. We are the only nation in the Western world to present such a sorry balance sheet. Out of this situation French Communist propaganda easily derived its main strength. In the eyes of many Frenchmen, the Communists were the only ones who talked about progress. The fact that the new government has registered a real impact on the nation has already thrown confusion into the Communist ranks. The bosses of the Communist machine in Paris are deeply disturbed...
...germ warfare in Korea. He decided that the Communists wanted the "confession" as the price for letting them go free. But the Reds complained that his confession contained "lies" and "inaccuracies," so he went back to his cell, read germ-warfare confessions that were reported in English-language Communist propaganda papers he was given, and made his own confessions square with those that had been forced out of U.S. prisoners in Korea. (The Communists never used Applegate's "confession," presumably because they had already finished their germ-warfare propaganda campaign by then...
...this was to be a hadj with a double mission. Hamid and Rusi had read with anger about the propaganda pilgrimages staged by the Russians during the hadj season. Three times since World War II, Moscow had sent Communists from among Russia's large Moslem population to Mecca. Their mission: to spread the word that the U.S.S.R. is really the nearest thing to Mohammedan paradise and that the imperialist U.S. is out to exploit all Moslems...
...scarcely a day goes by without a Brahman being assassinated by the "Red revolutionists"; in Calcutta, where the hammer and sickle is nailed to a wall of the seamen's union; in the frontier city of Darjeeling, where Tibetan Communists "squeeze across the border now and then." Soviet propaganda was everywhere, blanketing the bookshops, nudging Hollywood aside in the movie theaters. In one frontier district, Redding reports, the local garrison was marched, by squads, to see the Soviet film The Fall of Berlin, in which not one scene suggests that Americans participated in the defeat of the Nazis...
...organ with "beautiful illustrations ... of Americans participating in the good things of democratic life . . ." can be found in magazine racks of Indian aircraft and in university reading rooms, where one Indian in 20,000 can see them and be impressed. Redding's verdict: the Communists are winning the propaganda battle...