Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mass. Propaganda Alert," a coalition of activist groups, urged a boycott of the series, criticizing its ideology as Cold War-mongering. Spokesman Tony Palomba said the group consists of seven anti-war organizations and has received numerous endorsements from local political figures and anti-war spokesmen...
This idea, of course, was not new to the Soviets--after all, they paid attention to what the Republican Party was doing. But I had thought of a twist. I would frame the propaganda in the form of a mini-series, cast some good-looking actors, and give it a glossy look. It would be of such high quality and so entertaining in its own right that the masses would never imagine that they were being deceived...
Simultaneously, the Kremlin was also putting forth an unusually hard propaganda line against the U.S. This included publication of a book charging that the 1978 Jonestown massacre, in which more than 900 religious cultists took their lives by drinking cyanide-spiked Kool-Aid, was the work of the CIA. TASS also resurrected totally fantastic and absurd allegations that the AIDS virus was created by U.S. scientists in a Maryland germ-warfare laboratory...
...Soviet visit began last March. Gosteleradio, the Soviet agency in charge of TV and radio, offered to split the costs. The show's producers declined, but did agree to use Soviet TV crews. Donahue is sensitive to criticism that he might have been manipulated by the Soviets for propaganda purposes. "They had an agenda," he admits, "but I don't think they used me in any way that was different from the way that we might want to show off our best side to a Soviet television crew...
...Jews who are satisfied with life in the Soviet Union. After both sides balked at a joint appearance, plans were made to tape each group separately. Then the Soviets demanded that the number of participants be reduced. Finally, the refuseniks backed out, afraid of being used for propaganda purposes. As a last resort, Donahue tried to interview a large group of refuseniks away from government studios, but could not find a room big enough for taping the show; even the U.S. embassy turned them down...