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30 THE TECHNIQUES OF SOVIET PROPAGANDA is to science. The Communist is the entre eur of organization, as the capitalist is the entrepreneur of manufacturing. Gullibility of the free world Strange as it may seem, @ third propellant of Soviet propaganda, and not the least, is the eager an gratuitous response of the free world’s press. The actual power of the Kremlin’s propaganda sub- stantially surpasses the formidable potential thus far evaluated, because it is voluntarily echoed and orchestrated by the non-Com- munist news media. {nfluenced by their love of ‘sensation, their search for spectacular news, and their naivete regarding Soviet chicaneries and lies, they repeat many of these chicaneries and lies of their own free will, even without inducement by the auxiliaries which infiltrate them. Thus the Soviets use many mirrors, besides their own, for catching their larks. IV. Psrcuonogican Metuops Having reviewed the technical resources of Soviet propaganda, this section will deal with the methods used to play on emotions, and the following section with the fallacies to wi ‘eh it resorts to delude minds. The simplest, and unfortunately the most effective method used by Soviet propaganda is typical vulgar demagogy, but raised to a level previously considered impossible. The provocation of simul- taneously contradictory discontents had never been thought possible, yet that is what the Rremiin accomplishes every day; setting town against country because bread is too dear, country against town be- cause grain is too cheap; merchant against bureaucrat in the name of efficiency, bureaucrat against merchant in the name of planning; European against American in the name of culture, American against European in the name of efficiency. It stirs up prejudices diametri- cally opposed to the internationalist and altruistic doctrines it pro- fesses: chauvinism, when it wishes to arouse Franco-German enmity; antisemitism, if Israel stands in the path of Soviet imperialism. It enrolls the centuries and the dialectic in the service of its impostors, wrapping them up in the “historical process.” Communist demagogy is the first to have dared assume the pomp of philosophy and the blazon of history. FALSEHOOD AND DUPLICITY WITHOUT LIMIT Bolshevism’s descent to absolute falsehood is obvious in its basic position; it promises total liberation and organizes total enslavement. A very incomplete list of examples is illustrative of methods whose blatant fraudulence cannot be equaled by any movement in history: Designation as “armies of liberation” troops who impose the cruelest subjection on conquered countries. . Offering its services as a partner to ‘defend freedom” while concocting tyranny. Inciting workers to demand trade union rights and ruthlessly abolishing those very rights immediately after winning power. Labeling the equalization of income “bourgeois” in Communist regimes and “Communist” in bourgeois countries. Forcing innocent people to “confess” their guilt and laud their executioners. Terming compulsory voting for unopposed candidates an “election” and seasions of unanimous endorsement “debates.” Condemning West German rearmament after heavily arming East Germany.