Posted on 06/02/2015 7:07:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Russia’s dictator Vladimir Putin is basking in the glow of an unheard-of 86% approval rating. But his popularity has not stemmed from the people’s contentment or any monumental achievement of their leader. His boat has been lifted by the rising tide of insane hatred for America and Ukraine sweeping Russia. Hysterical chauvinism flogged by TV has brought the Russian people to a fever pitch, demonstrating the monumental power of propaganda.
Renowned Russian opposition journalist Vladimir Yakovlev, in a recent article published in his Russian-language Mulbabar blog, explained the mechanism of the current propaganda campaign designed to keep the Russian people focused on the external enemy and oblivious to their country’s sorry condition.
In Soviet times, every college in Russia had a military chair, something like our ROTC but compulsory. It was an important incentive for the Soviet youth, because military training as part of the college curriculum was a sure way of avoiding the hated conscription. Military training was geared to the specific educational profile of each institute of higher learning. At Yakovlev’s alma mater, the Moscow State University School of Journalism, the students were trained, in an atmosphere of utmost secrecy, in the art of “combat special propaganda,” the methods of sowing discord in the enemy ranks by means of disinformation and mind-bending.
Combat, or “black,” propaganda is a highly effective weapon of distorting real facts with a view to achieving the propagandist’s goals. Here are some of the methods the future Soviet journalists were taught and today’s Russian propagandists use with such astonishing success.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Saddam got 100% one time and how did that work out for him.
Iraqi officials say President Saddam Hussein has won 100% backing in a referendum on whether he should rule for another seven years.
The government insists the count was fair and accurate.
Saddam Hussein - who has ruled Iraq since 1979 - was the only candidate.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2331951.stm
Beat that Putin.
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