• from the Soviet Union, some observers saw no difference between a peace activist and a communist. It was said by some that the peace movement in the West...
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  • of Soviet propaganda techniques, the firehose of falsehood is a contemporary model for Russian propaganda under Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Russian...
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    A peace movement is a social movement which seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or wars) or minimizing inter-human violence...
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    even defended the Soviet Union's involvement in numerous conflicts. These factors led to the decline of its influence over the peace movement in non-Communist...
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    The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991...
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    [of the news media] to influence the importance placed on the topics of the public agenda". If a news item is covered frequently and prominently, the audience...
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  • Potemkin village (category 1787 in the Russian Empire)
    his book, The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn declined to visit the Kriukovo Gulag with a Soviet official, seemingly chosen by the Soviets well in advance...
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    for the Soviet Union. The First Chief Directorate was formed within the KGB directorate in 1954, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union became the Foreign...
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  • significance in the film. Set design often influences many themes or parts of a film. Mise-en-scène can also affect the decision whether to shoot on location...
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  • bring the ratio back to an acceptable level. Once a subject chooses to keep one of the dissonant factors, they quickly forget the other to restore peace of...
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  • populations, as well as to influence individuals and specific groups that were hostile towards the Soviet government and its policies. The majority of their operations...
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    Poland. On 26 November 1939, the Soviet army shelled Mainila, a Russian village near the Finnish border. Soviet authorities blamed Finland for the attack...
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    Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society: VI: 4, March/April 2005. Croft, Robin (2006). "Folklore, Families and Fear: Exploring the Influence of the Oral...
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  • sitting on lap'; idiomatic equivalent: 'lapdog media';) is a pejorative term coined and popularised by veteran journalist Ravish Kumar for the sensationalist...
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  • Chinese nationalists on the internet. The Little Pink are different from members of the 50 Cent Party or Internet Water Army, as the Little Pink are not...
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  • that the pro-Putin movement had engaged in a range of activities including paying commentators to post content and hijacking blog ratings in the fall...
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  • Oscar Wilde was an early proponent of this device and a significant influence on Orwell. This pattern was formulated by Hugh Rank and is a simple tool...
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  • Vasili Mitrokhin, thereby influencing both Garrison's subsequent accusations against the CIA and Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK. On January 29, 1969, Clay...
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    Hoax (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    the dark, or a treatise on the nature of witches and witchcraft. The term hoax is occasionally used in reference to urban legends and rumors, but the...
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  • controversial questions". The authors write that this has resulted in "deliberate obfuscation" of the issues which has had an influence on public opinion and...
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    evade the draft, in nations where women who are not mothers are drafted. Having someone exert personal influence on an officer in charge of the conscription...
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  • an American psychiatrist, influenced the initial diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality reaction/disturbance in the Diagnostic and Statistical...
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    Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively...
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    precincts". The Washington Times. Retrieved February 24, 2012. Safire, William (December 5, 1993). "On Language; Only the Factoids". The New York Times...
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    has claimed that the Karabakh movement was a plot by the CIA to destroy the Soviet Union. Iran's Baháʼí Faith minority has been the target of conspiracy...
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  • False accusation (category Abuse of the legal system)
    that did not occur. A false allegation can occur as the result of intentional lying on the part of the accuser; or unintentionally, due to a confabulation...
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  • the tendency for experts to underestimate their own ability. Hot-cold empathy gap, the tendency to underestimate the influence of visceral drives on one's...
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  • Big lie (redirect from Repeating the lie)
    "the big lie" and related lies in their attempts to overturn and influence future elections, including those in 2022 and 2024. On June 13, 2022, the U...
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    Psychological operations (United States) (category Propaganda in the United States)
    to influence their motives and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and large foreign powers. The purpose...
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    activist and peace activist. In 1952, she became the first woman to walk the entire length of the Appalachian Trail in one season. Starting on January 1...
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