Graham wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 06:12:29 +1100, Master Bruce wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 03:23:15 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> > > wrote:
> >
> >>On Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 5:18:22 AM UTC-5, Master Bruce wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 01:49:57 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> >>> > wrote:
> >>>
> >>> >On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 9:41:38 PM UTC-5, Master Bruce wrote:
> >>>
> >>> >> I think "Marxist" is a new buzz word for the right. Everything they
> >>> >> don't like is now "Marxist". They don't understand the word, but
> >>> >> repeat it anyway. Leo is the second person in RFC to throw that word
> >>> >> around. I wonder where this started.
> >>> >
> >>> >Take your pick. Fox News, OANN, Newsmax, Breitbart, ad infinitum.
> >>> But do these disgruntled, uneducated whites listen to all that? Yes,
> >>> Fox News maybe, but the rest? Or maybe also local shock jocks.
> >>
> >>Disgruntled, uneducated whites have a nearly constant stream of Fox News
> >>on televisions in salons, bars, and other workplaces. In the car they have
> >>talk radio, which is where the right-wing media really got its start. Their
> >>local television station is likely owned by Sinclair, so they get another dose
> >>if they watch the evening news.
> >
> > I guess they're brainwashed.
> Kruschev rightly maintained that the US propaganda machine was far more
> effective on the US populace than the Soviet one on their citizens.


That's because the USSR was an utter shitehole in every way, and the US is a generally attractive place to live...as are Canada and the other OECD nations...

The East Germans had that "problem" too, their citizens could easily tune in to Western TV and radio, and they did. All the East German "propaganda" in the world was useless against ordinary Western electronic media...not just news, but adverts and also seeing how people in the West lived...

PS: And Mr. K was prone to embellishing and even tale - telling...plus which he utterly failed to understand what the West was "all about". Very telling: on his 1959 visit to Los Angeles he spotted some anti - Soviet protestors (IIRC Hungarians) from his limo on the way to the gala luncheon to be held in his honour at 20th Century Fox Studios,, he was livid about this and exclaimed, "Why can't President Eisenhower do something about that!? In the USSR we would never allow such a thing when we are hosting foreign visitors..."

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Greg