Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ulbricht took up Soviet citizenship, helped organize German P.W.s and captured officers (among them, Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus) into the pro-Communist shock corps that was supposed to go home and paint Germany Red after V-day. The propaganda barrage laid down on the encircled Wehrmacht armies at Stalingrad was written by Ulbricht and delivered in his guttural German over front-line loudspeakers. In Moscow, where he rubbed elbows with Red princelings from all over Europe, e.g., Tito, Togliatti, Thorez, he shared quarters in the Lux Hotel with a plain, buxom German émigree named Lotte...
...Shadow. "We trust Americans to recognize propaganda and to reject obscenity. We do not believe they need the help of censors to assist them in this task. We believe they still favor free enterprise in ideas and expression...
...succeeded were wary of talking to Hungarians, who would suffer reprisals from the police if they were caught speaking to Westerners. New York Times Correspondent Cy Sulzberger filed a candid impression of the country: "Millions of intelligent beings living within the Soviet bloc have been . . . mesmerized by their monolithic propaganda machine . . . The average political leader . . . pretends to regard our statements ... as what the Russians call Klyukva ... in connotation . . . 'boloney.' 'Boloney' to date is regrettably what a good deal of the phraseology here sounds like to Western ears...
...cries for "united action" were not new. Socialist candidates in the recent municipal elections in France were repeatedly approached by Communists who offered to pool votes and abstain from hostile propaganda. Then, as now, the Socialists rejected all approaches. But there was a new note of determination in the rejection. Speaking in France's National Assembly, influential Socialist Charles Lussy declared: "To speak of unity of action today, after the events which we know, seems to me rather misplaced, particularly on the day after the unity of action of the German workers was shattered by the fire of Soviet...
Celtic Queen. "The Greeks wrote all the histories," says an academic proverb, "and gave themselves all the breaks." During their peak, the Greeks described western Europe as inhabited chiefly by unseemly savages. This ancient triumph of propaganda was somewhat damaged recently when Rene Joffroy, professor of philosophy and an ardent archaeologist, dug into a Celtic tomb near Chatillon-sur-Seine in eastern France...