Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seen close up at the Waldorf in the wake of these events, Shostakovich scarcely looked fit for his assigned role as Stalin's propagandist. He cut a surprisingly frail figure on the dais at the Starlight Roof, where he was seen to light cigarette after cigarette with trembling hands. His face was at the mercy of twitches and tics, his lips were drawn in an unconvincing smile. A translator read his speech for him; it attacked both U.S. warmongers and Igor Stravinsky, and praised the "unheard-of scope and level of development reached by musical culture in the U.S.S.R...
DIED. Pyotr Pospelov, 80, leading propagandist, historian and theoretician for the Soviet Communist Party and for twelve years editor of Pravda; in Moscow. A malleable and therefore durable ideologue, Pospelov maintained his credit with the party through several changes in its leadership. He demonstrated his political flexibility most dramatically in 1954 by calling for "peaceful coexistence with the West" three years after his vituperative railings against the U.S. had triggered the U.S.S.R.'s "Hate America" campaign...
...political education to that of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. "At first when I read Solzhenitsyn I thought he was just anti-Communist, but now I know it is true. You have to see Communism to believe it," Toai says. Like Solzhenitsyn, he has gone from revolutionary supporter to virulent anti-Communist propagandist...
...They obviously reflect my point of view, express what I see...I'm not a propagandist, I'm trying to show things as they...
...films obviously reflect my point of view, but I'm not a propagandist...I'm trying to show things as they are, as I see them." --Robert Altman...