[republicman]

Its like something out of Stalinist Russia

[Windcatcher]

The first thing I thought of was the movie "Victory" with Sylvester Stallone about a soccer team of Allied POWs being made to play the Nazis for a PR stunt. They were playing in Paris, and the Nazi commentator had a small box where he would crank the knob to try to make listeners believe the French were cheering when the Germans scored a goal.

[Wissa]

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
George Orwell