Soviet Union 1991

Main text Chapter 88 Public opinion offensive

(First update)

The Tbilisi incident greatly irritated the US government, especially CIA Director Robert Gates, who seemed extremely excited. The Soviet army's suppression of the people's march will undoubtedly become the most sensational news this year. And what the Western world has to do is to completely disintegrate and collapse the people's fragile trust in the Soviet government through extensive propaganda reports.

Even if Yanayev has a far-reaching political vision and strategic means, a government that has lost the trust of the people will collapse in a sea of ​​condemnation. For this reason, Robert Gates went to the White House to find President Bush and begged the president to pass a special budget to put the last straw on the Soviet Union's notorious evil empire.

President Bush showed great interest in Robert's plan. After the Khrushchev era, the bureaucratic style of the Soviet government's propaganda department led to their gradual loss of public opinion. However, under the careful planning of the CIA, the United States has shaped the image of the leader of the free world on a global scale and denounced the Soviet Union as an evil empire that threatens world peace.

"It is not very effective to just carry out propaganda in the United States, because the image of the Soviet Union has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. We need to let the people of the major Soviet member states know about the crimes committed by the Soviet army in Tbilisi through secret anti-fascist radio stations, newspapers and magazines. In this way, the Soviet government, which was already unpopular, will completely slide into the abyss."

"We also need to distort the facts as much as possible, even if it means using rumors and malicious smears. Shape the Soviet Union into a stumbling block that hinders the progress of the world, and use US dollars to fund their domestic intellectuals to help build momentum, creating an atmosphere that the Soviet government is unpopular both at home and abroad."

The report presented by Robert can be said to be heart-wrenching, and President Bush certainly welcomed this form. Soon, the action of peaceful evolution propaganda was launched in the United States, and a propaganda war was waged against the Soviet Union by supporting anti-fascist radio stations. The number of deaths in the Tbilisi incident was deliberately exaggerated, while the real cause of the Tbilisi incident was distorted, and the rioting crowd was disguised as freedom fighters who resisted dictatorial oppression. After the martial law, intellectuals in the Soviet Union also gathered together on a large scale for the first time to support and sympathize with the Georgian people.

The entire Western world was promoting the Soviet Union's brutal suppression and Yanaev's bloody rule. Some reports even put Yanaev and Hitler together, satirizing him as one of the culprits that hindered world peace in the 20th century.

When all American reports were criticizing the Soviet Union, only Columbia Radio chose to remain silent. Wallace, who had in-depth contact with Yanaev, did not believe in the mainstream American propaganda. Because he knew very well what kind of character this leader had. Unreasonableness is a common problem for politicians, but Yanaev is far from being as unbearable as the mainstream Western propaganda.

Just when everyone thought that the Soviet Union would suffer another Waterloo blow in the field of public opinion, the Soviet Propaganda Department launched a counterattack under the careful planning of Moscow.

Unlike the report on the Chernobyl incident, the Soviet Propaganda Department did not take the form of blocking rather than dredging in the Tbilisi riots this time. Rumors stop at the truth. The newspapers controlled by the Propaganda Department reported the causes and consequences of the Tbilisi incident directly and reported it extensively in the newspapers in the form of headlines.

Under Surkov's leadership, the Soviet Propaganda Department got rid of the rule of the previous ** bureaucrats and burst into great vitality, as if returning to the great October Revolution and the heroic Patriotic War. The pen tip of the Soviet Propaganda Department became a bullet, ruthlessly shooting into the enemy's chest.

In the photos specially rendered in black and white, there are brave soldiers holding a little girl out of the sea of ​​​​fire, civilian bodies covered with white cloth, revealing a palm, and bleeding people covering their foreheads, looking at the cameraman's lens with pessimistic and desperate eyes. Of course, there are also those hideous thugs who pointed their guns at civilians, and group photos of the opposition holding swastikas and making Nazi gestures.

All this seems to tell the heavy pain that this group of people's pursuit of so-called democracy and freedom has brought to others.

Under the guidance of Yanaev, who was well versed in public opinion offensives, Propaganda Minister Surkov downplayed the daytime suppression incident and focused on how the thugs cruelly hurt the people. There was no prominent image of the glamorous and majestic Soviet high-level figures, only the helplessness, anxiety and fear of the small people in the face of the great changes of the times.

The release of the report quickly reversed the Soviet Union's disadvantage in the public opinion field. After experiencing these reports, those people who hated the Soviet government did not show obvious support, but their disgust was reduced a lot.

The title of the report also used the most famous sentence during the French Revolution, "Freedom, how many crimes are committed in your name." It seems to be a harsh irony of the justice and freedom advocated by the United States. Especially the last paragraph of the report, written by Yanaev himself, as the beginning of the public opinion war.

“American politicians and media always proudly claim to be the leaders of the free world, calling our motherland an evil empire and our army gray cattle. However, the prevalence of McCarthyism has led to the persecution of intellectuals with free thoughts. General MacArthur suppressed the veterans of the World War II peace march. The police suppressed students who opposed the Vietnam War and shot and killed people. The CIA instigated coups around the world and supported those out-and-out military dictatorships and monarchical dictatorships. They also shipped drugs back to the country to lure African Americans into drug trafficking. You keep saying that the Soviet Union threatened world peace with war, then How many people died because of these actions of the United States? We don't know, but it is definitely not a small number. Doesn't the United States claim to be a fighter for human rights and freedom? Why do you call us dictatorial while supporting those real dictators to massacre their own people? When the US government did this, where was the sense of justice of the American media? Why did you all choose to remain silent? Since you slander us as a symbol of dictatorship, how do you treat the people who claim to be free? "

The official Soviet report was as pungent and sarcastic as the vodka loved by the Slavic people, using facts to counter the distorted and exaggerated reports of the Americans. The American propaganda quickly collapsed, and this report was not only widely reprinted in the Soviet Union, but also specially translated into English and reprinted by Western journalists in their newspapers, causing a shock and uproar in Western public opinion. Especially those people's fronts who worshipped the Nazis slapped the Western journalists who slandered the Soviet Union as Nazis.

The English title of this report is "The Counterattack from the Red Empire".

Without the previous pedantic bureaucratic propaganda format, a brand new Soviet Propaganda Department appeared in the newspapers.

That day, the Soviet people felt the roar and roar from the red polar bear.

That day, the terrifying red alarm sounded again in the sky of Europe.

Hello, the free world of the West, after more than a decade of absence, the Soviet revolutionary propaganda department that once made you tremble is back.

Now, are you ready to accept our counterattack?

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