Quote Of The Day!…
“I have the greatest admiration for your propaganda. Propaganda in the West is carried out by experts who have had the best training in the world — in the field of advertizing — and have mastered the techniques with exceptional proficiency … Yours are subtle and persuasive; ours are crude and obvious … I think that the fundamental difference between our worlds, with respect to propaganda, is quite simple. You tend to believe yours … and we tend to disbelieve ours.” — a Soviet correspondent based five years in the U.S.
It’s a very good quote, but what about the source? In the seventies I was told the same thing in Montreal, the same idea, I mean, by a refugee from Ussr who was a professional translator (had worked for Brejnev he’d told me) – and I agree with the content of the quote.
However, I’ve read that same quote attributed to “A US-based Soviet correspondent (during the Cold War Era)” on many blogs (more than ten). But no name, and no source (a source like a book, an article by someone who had met and quoted the anonymous correspondent, or whatever, etc.) – no mention as to the origin of the quote.
Beware of people ” testing the ground ” with something innocuous to see how far they can go disseminating something less innocuous (I’m not talking about you, here
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Best regards.
Loup.