Placation
"'Propaganda is all the time swamped on you... When you are 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 years old, you start to believe it," -Dr. Jamusz Bardach, a labor camp survivor |
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Citizens were surrounded with phrases like, "the son does not answer [to] the father," but to Stalin. Source: Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler- The Age of Social Catastrophe, 2007 "Children were induced to transfer their affections from their families to Stalin; children who denounced their parents were lionized." -Donald Rayfield, author and professor
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The ubiquitous propaganda convinced Soviet citizens of the infallibility of communism and their government, effectively keeping them in oblivion. |
Source: Iconography of Power Soviet Political Posters, 1997
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