Propaganda+in+the+Cold+War


 * Propaganda **[[image:464px-Alaskadeathtrapa.jpg width="229" height="300" align="right"]]


 * Propaganda** is a form of communication aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position.

**Black and White Propaganda-** The United States and the Soviet Union both used propaganda many times during the Cold War. Both of them used film, television, and radio to influence their own people and third world nations. The Soviet Union's government station, Radio Moscow, broadcast white propaganda. Both sides also broadcast black propaganda programs in special crises.

While Truman acknowledged the importance of propaganda as a peacetime instrument of foreign policy, it was primarily the Cold War that institutionalized propaganda as a permanent instrument of U.S. foreign policy. A widespread belief developed that the United States was losing the "war of ideas" to the Soviet Union's supposedly superior propaganda apparatus. As Cold War tensions intensified, the United States gradually expanded its propaganda capabilities.

The communist propaganda in the Soviet Union was extensively based on the Marxism-Leninism ideology to promote the Communist Party line. In societies with pervasive censorship, the propaganda was omnipresent and very efficient. It penetrated even social and natural sciences giving rise to various pseudo-scientific theories like Lysenkoism, whereas fields of real knowledge, as genetics, cybernetics, and comparative linguistics were condemned and forbidden as "bourgeois pseudoscience". With "truths repressed, falsehoods in every field were incessantly rubbed in in print, at endless meetings, in school, in mass demonstrations, on the radio"

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