[DaveTesla]

If I had my guess id say back in the 50’s to early 60's.

I don't think it is bias it is communist propaganda.

Slowly they have gained total control.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Exactly. it is sad.

[Terpfen]

If I had my guess id say back in the 50’s to early 60's.

You're giving them way, waaaay too much credit there. You can go back to the 1920s and read Walter Duranty's claims that there really was a multi-year famine in the Ukraine (Stalin didn't starve anyone!), Soviet political trials were fair to the accused (no show trials here!), and that Stalin was a great man.

I know a lot of FReepers pine for the WW2-era press, but honestly, I think the reason they were so gung-ho to beat the Axis Powers had less to do with national security and more to do with how the Nazis had damn near toppled Stalin and the Soviets. If not for Lend-Lease, it would have happened.