Archive Report
Archive Report
Complications in Propaganda Program
The Ability of Communists to make propaganda capital, alike out of their own accomplishments and out of the failures of others, has been brought home anew in recent days. Through skillful use of radio and television, speeches and statements, and public demonstrations, the governments of Communist nations—aided in many cases by Communist partisans in other countries—have exploited to the full both Soviet Russia's man-in-space achievement and the abortive attempt of Cuban rebels to spark an anti-Castro insurrection. Whether the task is to boast of Communist prowess or to denounce and embarrass capitalist adversaries, the Reds can be relied on to do an impressive propaganda job.1 In this field they present a challenge that free nations find particularly hard to meet.
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