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{ _ . : H ) i ee 28 THE TECHNIQUES OF SOVIET PROPAGANDA ~ os 4 re tries have departments of colonial problems, of africology, of vernacu- lar dialects, of primitive economics, ete,, which under an emic cloak are in fact the cradlea of auxiliaries. ae ‘An aggregate of several thousand indoctrinators a year is estimated as the production of these beehives. The special schools are a formidable weapon. For the mediocre or indigent men admitted to them, the long journey and the discovery of new countries means promotion and pleasant memories. The students make lesting fri ndships, savor the intoxication of initiation - : into e to an inner circle; they feel associated with imposing power and entrusted with a solemn mission; and they jearn techniques which impress upon them their own distinction an importance. Above all, they believe they have become repositories of truth. This is the mainspring of their missionary fervor, continually rewound by frequent contacts, technical and material assistance. e “truth” they learn 1s in fact a fraud, but ita rational content matters little, What matters is an apprenticeship in a particular phraseology; in a rhetorical system that supplies classified answers to every question; in an oratorical artistry having actually more to do with acrobatics than intelligence, but which hypnotizes an audience. ", Ill. Esrmmatzn Maanirups or Propacganna Mepia Urtuizep By Moscow In those countries having a powerful a paretus for direct Com- munist proselytism, the apparatus of parelle and crypto-Communist organizations is roughly equal in size. Where the Party is weak or nonexistent the parallel apparatus remains very large. Considering the fact that undercover corruption is the most expensive, it can be con- ’ eluded that the worldwide crypto-Communist _propagands apparatus em loys some 300,000 people and costs $1.5 billion a year. dding the cost. of direct Communist propaganda abroad, and the propaganda effort directed at foreigners—residents and visitors—with- in the Communist bloc, consisting of guided tours, radio broadcasts and special schools, it can be roughly estimated that the total of all types of propaganda, worldwide, involves some half million personnel and an annual expenditure of approximately $2 billion. This effort is aimed at the some 1 billion people outside the Com- munist bloc; thus it may be said that Moscow, with some participation by Peiping, spends $2 a year for every free man it intends to subjugate. o grasp the magnitude of Moscow's political warfare against us, a committee of the U.S. Senate has estimated that the equivalent amount allotted annually by the United States to worldwide prop- agenda is 1} cents per person. With the addition of budgetary provisions for this purpose by all other free nations, the total amounta to almost 2 cents. The Soviet propaganda effort is thus roughly 100 times as great as that of the entire free world; so it is a phenomenon having an entirely different nature. One essential truth about communism must never be forgotten: the size, typs, and scope of its open and furtive prop- SV gv errs: ae SiS, ew eee ae She aganda apparatus is unique in human history. eR Ege weet a se dibs sh ab tia aime. eb ecienes cb dads t yey tC 4 ‘ a rrr lem een eeeene ene . —