[alloysteel]

A similar kind of propaganda was widely used in the Stalinist era in the Soviet Union, when the paragon of the “New Soviet Man” was presented as the ideal for all of Mother Russia’s sons.

Didn’t prevent malingering and drunkennes on the job, though. After all, they won’t shoot EVERYBODY, would they?

Would they?

As it turned out, whole entire villages got just that treatment, and the stories were allowed to be passed by word of mouth as an example to other villages.

[Army Air Corps]

As it turned out, whole entire villages got just that treatment, and the stories were allowed to be passed by word of mouth as an example to other villages.

Kinda like picking companies at random and "crucifying" them.

[rlmorel]

There has been at least one thread I have seen in which the focus was the significance of the liberals choosing the name “Julia” for their subject.

Several of us imagined them yukking it up as they considered it...