Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From across the Soviet border, Iran has been subjected to an unprecedented propaganda campaign of hate against the Shah. Powerful transmitters at Baku and Tashkent, between bursts of fine Persian music, devoted more time to programs in Parsi than the Russians spend on any other foreign-language broadcast except English. "Foreigners are pouring into Iran like ants and locusts, depriving Iranians of their rights," cried Russia on the air. The Shah and the landlords around him are secreting millions of dollars of oil profits in New York and London bank accounts, charged one Communist commentator. At the rate the Shah...
Seeger has often been accused of merely disseminating propaganda through his protest songs. He recalls one interview he had several years ago with a CRIMSON reporter, when "I admitted that folksinging was a means of propaganda. The next day I found myself in a headline, 'Seeger Says He Sings Propaganda Songs...
...Folksinging is propaganda. It's a mistake, though, to say that protest songs are limited merely to unions and politics. For example, songs of unrequited love are really protests against unrequition. Or the child who sings "I hate Bosco, it's bad for you and me' is displaying a form of juvenile protest. I wish people could think of protest songs as covering the whole range of human experience...
Ever alert to the wiles of the West, the Soviet news agency Tass last week stumbled onto what seemed to it one of the biggest U.S. propaganda bloopers of all time. Tass could hardly contain itself at thought of showing up the Americans, delightedly prepared a news item for Soviet newspapers exposing the whole fraud. Object of Tass's excitement: the typical U.S. home that thousands of Russians will see in Moscow this summer as part of the first major U.S. exhibition in Russia (TIME, March 16). The six-room house, dubbed a "splitnik" because it will be split...
...typical home of a Bombay textile worker or Buckingham Palace as the typical home of the English miner." Furthermore, added Tass, with its mind on what such furniture might cost in Moscow's GUM-if it were ever available there-Macy's was guilty of "propaganda" in saying that all that luxurious furniture could be bought...