During the 1930s, Stalin and his entourage rehabilitated famous names from the Russian national past in a propaganda campaign designed to mobilize Soviet society for the coming war. Legendary heroes l
The USSR is often regarded as the world's first propaganda state. Particularly under Stalin, politically charged rhetoric and imagery dominated the press, schools, and cultural forums from literature
The USSR equivalent of Orwell's Ministry of Truth must have worked overtime to churn out the newspaper articles, curriculum and literature that supported the concept that Stalinism was not only good b