“:^)
An anecdote I recall fondly. I saw once, as a patient, an older gentleman who had an accent. I asked him about it and he said he had grown up in Italy and come to America after WWII. So this meant he grew up in Mussolini’s Italy. I asked him about this and he said Italy was horrible during the war. When I commented that “at least the trains ran on time” he laughed. When I looked bewildered he explained that the trains didn’t run any better it was just that once Mussolini declared “The Trains will run on time” it was “unhealthy” to point out they didn’t.
So what had happened was that the papers were running stories about how the trains were not on time on a daily basis just suddenly stopped these stories. There was no change in anything in reality at all. Just all of a sudden, once the Leader had said it would stop, the reporting of it did stop. Once ink that sells papers becomes ink that gets you killed or tortured that ink is pretty scarce.