The thing with Pravda and Tass pre-1991, unlike consumers of Western media, the Soviets knew they were being propagandized, and learned how to read between the lines.
I knew a based Serbian. I had zero clue why he bought every news paper in town and point would out the difference in stories.
He would say look, a cat is in a tree. Look how all these papers have to say every story a different way. He was obsessed with it. We thought he was weird, he thought we were weird
Come to find out he was right and actually trying to wake us up. Old time Russians and Easter European can see it. Our entire reality is propaganda and we’re gonna have to have a massive event similar to the Berlin Wall falling for people to understand.
I believe RT is Russia Times, but we all know MSM is Pravda, so whatevs.
The thing with Pravda and Tass pre-1991, unlike consumers of Western media, the Soviets knew they were being propagandized, and learned how to read between the lines.
I knew a based Serbian. I had zero clue why he bought every news paper in town and point would out the difference in stories.
He would say look, a cat is in a tree. Look how all these papers have to say every story a different way. He was obsessed with it. We thought he was weird, he thought we were weird Come to find out he was right and actually trying to wake us up. Old time Russians and Easter European can see it. Our entire reality is propaganda and we’re gonna have to have a massive event similar to the Berlin Wall falling for people to understand.
If we had only known then what we know now <sigh>. Great story.