Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mass Propaganda Alert charges that the network prepared this series in order to satisfy persistent right-wing critics of ABC's highly successful drama, "The Day After," a speculative depiction of nuclear holocaust in Kansas. Pipes said he also believed ABC created the series as compensation for earlier productions seen as left-leaning...
...Moscow evening news report, had aired pictures of picketers outside the ABC building, but had not shown excerpts from the series. He said the Soviets would certainly not show the entire film. Pipes agreed, and said selections for public viewing would probably be those most easily interpreted as propaganda...
Soviet dissidents disagreed on the significance of the mass release. Sergei Grigoryants, a literary critic who was sent to prison for 13 years for spreading anti-Soviet propaganda but was freed last week, was somewhat optimistic. "Gorbachev is doing everything he can to activate people," he said, "but he has lots of opposition, both open and secret. His opposition is our problem." Naum Meiman, an activist whose cancer-stricken wife died in Washington last week, just three weeks after being allowed to leave the Soviet Union for treatment in the U.S., described the recent changes as a "more sophisticated...
Those released ranged from religious activists to Ukrainian and Baltic nationalists, but the majority seemed to have been imprisoned under Article 70 of the criminal code on charges of "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." Many had been jailed for expressing criticism that in the Gorbachev era has become standard fare in the press. Former U.S. Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson, who recently led a delegation of members of the New York City-based Council on Foreign Relations on a visit to Moscow, remarked last week that he had been struck by the degree to which glasnost has affected Soviet life. Said...
...included in the release were some of the more prominent Jewish dissidents, including Begun, Yuli Edelshtein and Sakhar Zunshein. Several of the remaining prisoners had apparently refused to sign a letter requesting a pardon and pledging that they would not engage in any more anti-Soviet propaganda. Though the Kremlin claims to have told 500 Soviet Jews last month that they could emigrate, a figure that is almost certainly exaggerated, it seemed clear last week that most refuseniks were not yet enjoying the benefits of glasnost. Naum Meiman, 75, a mathematician and close friend of Sakharov's, has repeatedly been...