20 Facts About Soviet propaganda

Propaganda in the Soviet Union was the practice of state-directed communication to promote class conflict, internationalism, the goals of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the party itself.

An institution during World War II was the Soviet propaganda train, fitted with presses and portable cinemas, staffed with lecturers.

Many Soviet propaganda works depicted the development of a "positive hero" as requiring intellectualism and hard discipline.

Soviet propaganda was not driven by crude impulses of nature but by conscious self-mastery.

Murder of Pavlik Morozov was widely exploited in Soviet propaganda to urge on children the duty of informing on even their parents to the new state.

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The Soviet propaganda Union did its best to try and create a new society in which the people of Russia could unite as one.

In 1939, a rationing plan was considered but not implemented because it would undermine the Soviet propaganda of improving care for the people, whose lives grew better and more cheerful every year.

Soviet propaganda's clothing was carefully selected to cement this image.

Soviet propaganda often figured as the great father of the "great family" that was the new Soviet Union.

Some historians believe that an important goal of Soviet propaganda was "to justify political repressions of entire social groups which Marxism considered antagonistic to the class of proletariat", as in decossackization or dekulakization campaigns.

Soviet propaganda leaders posed as common people, lacking interest in such matters as fine art and ballet, even as they selectively chose from working class culture.

The only way to discover if a German soldier had fallen alive into Soviet hands was to listen; the radio would announce that a certain prisoner would speak, then give some time for his family to gather and listen, and fill it with propaganda.

Anti-fascism was commonly used in Soviet propaganda aimed outside the USSR during the 1930s, particularly to draw people into front organizations.

All Soviet propaganda citizens were called on to fight, and soldiers who surrendered had failed in their duty.

Many Soviet propaganda citizens found treatment of soldiers who fell into enemy hands as "traitors to the Motherland" as suitable for their own grim determination, and "not a step back" inspired soldiers to fight with self-sacrifice and heroism.

Under the Khrushchev administration, this idea of a Soviet propaganda utopia was worked heavily into the concept of space travel and spreading across the world.

GRU alone spent more than $1 billion for Soviet propaganda and peace movements against Vietnam War, which was a "hugely successful campaign and well worth the cost", according to GRU defector Stanislav Lunev.

Soviet propaganda claimed that "the GRU and the KGB helped to fund just about every antiwar movement and organization in America and abroad".

Soviet propaganda-run movements pretended to have little or no ties with the USSR, often seen as noncommunist, but were controlled by the USSR.

Much of the activity of the Soviet propaganda-run peace movements was supervised by the World Peace Council.