"No one understood better than Stalin that the true purpose of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to establish a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance."
Leonard Schapiro, The Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Vintage Books ed 1971, p477.
Welcome back to 1937. And here you thought this was 2026.
"No one understood better than Stalin that the true purpose of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to establish a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance."
Leonard Schapiro, The Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Vintage Books ed 1971, p477.
Welcome back to 1937. And here you thought this was 2026.