I miss Soviet Propaganda

[Jules Galen]

I remember as a freshman in college I used got to the university library to read out-of-town news papers. Our library even had a subscription to Pravda and Tass: and I loved reading those papers.

Gawd...Pravda and Tass were such rags - and such bad propaganda - that it occurred to me that the liberal media was poeing the USSR government with this bad print: which nobody with half-a-mind could seriously. And when the USSR fell, I was right, people reported that no one (with a mind, that is) took Pravda or Tass seriously and that these papers were more destructive to the USSR than they were helpful.

Yeah...I smile smile when I think about how the journos that wrote for Tass and Pravda helped blacken the image of the USSR.

 

[John Jones]

OK! Everyone agrees that Soviet Propaganda is doubleplus ungood.

 

[Jules Galen]

OK! Everyone agrees that Soviet Propaganda is doubleplus ungood.

Yes...and no. It was bad as far as it served to enhance the USSR. It was good as far as it discredited the USSR.

That's why I like it.

Tass and Pravda where a "blowack" into the face of the USSR's political machine - and they didn't even seem to notice. It was a freakin' bizzare situation, and that is why it is worth the mentioning.

 

[TubbaBlubba]

IIRC Stalin had a habit of entertaining himself by reading Pravda and writing derisive commentary in the margins on the most absurd bits of propaganda. Among other things he used his favourite expression, translating to something like "What nonsense!" in reference to one of Lysenko's articles.

 

[Lukraak_Sisser]

Have you tried https://kcnawatch.co/?
I find it quite amusing, in low doses as it is very repetitive.

 

[Spindrift]

You can always read Breitbart or watch FoxNews to fill the gap.

 

[Hans]

Yes...and no. It was bad as far as it served to enhance the USSR. It was good as far as it discredited the USSR.

That's why I like it.

Tass and Pravda where a "blowack" into the face of the USSR's political machine - and they didn't even seem to notice. It was a freakin' bizzare situation, and that is why it is worth the mentioning.

Hmmm let me be skeptical...... could you provide a sample or two of this fine material?

 

[Shrike]

A year or two ago, I was at a museum with a collection of North Korean paintings. Apparently, they have the largest workshop for paintings in the world (though this could be proganda ).
Do a Google image search on North Korean paintings, you'll be amused.

 

[Sideroxylon]

A year or two ago, I was at a museum with a collection of North Korean paintings. Apparently, they have the largest workshop for paintings in the world (though this could be proganda ).
Do a Google image search on North Korean paintings, you'll be amused.

Americans are baby killing bastards! NK looks like a great place for a holiday though.

 

[theprestige]

You can always read Breitbart or watch FoxNews to fill the gap.

Not the same at all.

 

[Shrike]

Americans are baby killing bastards!

You don't say...

 

[Crossbow]

A year or two ago, I was at a museum with a collection of North Korean paintings. Apparently, they have the largest workshop for paintings in the world (though this could be proganda ).
Do a Google image search on North Korean paintings, you'll be amused.

Holy cow!

You are so right. That stuff they make is absolutely crazy.

 

[dudalb]

Classic Stalin with kids painting:



Wonder how many of those kid's parents he sent to the Gulag?

 

[carlvs]

Not the same at all.

Yes - back in the days of the USSR, the populace had no choice but to listen and read the propaganda...

 

[carlvs]

Classic Stalin with kids painting:

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Wonder how many of those kid's parents he sent to the Gulag?

Never mind the parents - between Stalin and Hitler, how many of the KIDS survived that era?!?!?

 

[theprestige]

Yes - back in the days of the USSR, the populace had no choice but to listen and read the propaganda...: p

That is indeed one of many important distinctions.

 

[Jules Galen]

Hmmm let me be skeptical...... could you provide a sample or two of this fine material?

Be skeptical...I just don't have it. I looked on the web for early 1980's English translations of Pravda and Tass, but didn't find them. And...I used to read the English Translations.

So...looks like this thread is for people people who are old enough to remember going to the University Library in the 70's and 80's and reading that stuff.

 

[McHrozni]

I have a gigabyte or two of Soviet propaganda music on one of my hard drives

Good stuff.

McHrozni

 

[Hans]

Be skeptical...I just don't have it. I looked on the web for early 1980's English translations of Pravda and Tass, but didn't find them. And...I used to read the English Translations.

So...looks like this thread is for people people who are old enough to remember going to the University Library in the 70's and 80's and reading that stuff.

Thanks for trying and yeah I read a great deal of it once. We use to get snippets of it in our daily S-2 briefings.

I remember one very well it was about a Warsaw Pact exercise and the picture used had in the back ground a parachutist doing a face plant instead of a PLF.

 

[dudalb]

It is interesting that during the Russo German War (1941-45) the propaganda angle changed from emphasizing the glories of the Soviet system to defending Holy Mother Russia. A lot of the Wartime propaganda could easily have used if the Tsar was still on the throne.