Propaganda in the Soviet Union

Pravda (, 'Truth') is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, and was the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million. The newspaper began publication on 5 May 1912 in the Russian Empire but was already extant abroad in January 1911. It emerged as the leading government newspaper of the Soviet Union after the October Revolution. The newspaper was an organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU between 1912 and 1991.

Art style depicting communist values

1926–1990 encyclopedia published in the Soviet Union

term used in some of the former Soviet republics for the Eastern front in World War II

Soviet miner, namesake of Stakhanovite movement (1906-1977)

Soviet work ethos equating labor with heroism

Izvestia (, "The News") is a daily broadsheet newspaper in Russia. Founded in February 1917, Izvestia, which covered foreign relations, was the organ of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, disseminating official state propaganda. It is now described as a "national newspaper" of Russia.

Soviet murder victim (1918-1932)

"Whataboutism" or "whataboutery" (as in, "but what about X?") refers to the propaganda strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of offering an explanation or defense against the original accusation. It is an informal fallacy that the accused party uses to avoid accountability—whether attempting to distract by shifting the conversation's focus away from their behaviour or attempting to justify themselves by pointing to the similar behaviour (which may be true or false, but irrelevant) of their opponent or another party who is not the current subject of discussio

international youth organisation

thumb|right|Agitprop poster by Vladimir Mayakovsky titled: "Want it? Join" "1. You want to overcome cold?2. You want to overcome hunger?3. You want to eat?4. You want to drink?Hasten to join shock brigades of exemplary labor!" Agitprop (; from , portmanteau of agitatsiya, "agitation" and propaganda, "propaganda") refers to an intentional, vigorous promulgation of ideas. The term originated in the Soviet Union where it referred to popular media, such as literature, plays, pamphlets, films, and other art forms, with an explicitly political message in favor of communism.

military incident staged by the Soviet Union used to justify the Winter War

national anthem

1942 association football match in Kyiv

Citizens of the Soviet Union

Uzbek dancer and honor killing victim

communist propaganda of the former Soviet Union

term for the actions of political warfare conducted by the Soviet and Russian security services

non-governmental organization

thumb|"- Woman, learn to read and write! - Oh, mother! If you were literate, you could help me!" A poster by Elizaveta Kruglikova advocating female literacy, 1923.

group of soldiers, a cliche of Soviet propaganda

Soviet tractor driver (1913-1959)

phrase in Soviet historiography

anti-religious weekly newspaper "The ungodly"

nationalism of the ruling class under capitalism

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Soviet catchphrase

Russian artist (1893–1946)

Archetype of the ideal Soviet citizen

claim that the 1932–1933 Holodomor, a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine, was not a genocide, or diminishment of the scale or significance of the famine

Buryat historian (1928–2004)

thumb|220px|alt=A Chinese postage stamp, printed with red-tinted ink, depicting Stalin (left) and Mao (right) shaking hands with a map showing both the Soviet Union and China, as well as both countries' flags and iconic buildings in the background.|A 1950 Chinese postage stamp depicting Joseph Stalin|Stalin and Mao shaking hands, representing friendly [[Sino-Soviet relations at the time the song was written.]] "Moscow–Peking" () or "Moscow–Beijing", also known as "The Russian and the Chinese are brothers forever" (), is a Soviet mass song composed in 1949 by Vano Muradeli to lyrics by Mikhail

song composed by Alexander Alexandrov

Magazine

Soviet Union propaganda ideology

politically and ideologically motivated distortion of the historical record of the national-cultural origin of one of the classics of Persian poetry, Nizami Ganjavi

1930 newspaper article by I. Stalin

former public statue in Prague

1950 sculpture by Karel Pokorný

Russian Marxist magazine (1925–1941)

named created in the USSR

Soviet Tajik teacher

Soviet theatre type

Ateist (; lit. «Atheist») was an antireligious monthly journal in Russian, which was published from 1922 to 1930 in the RSFSR and the USSR.

thumb|1956 Soviet stamp presenting Kryakutnoy as a real person Kryakutnoy () or Furtzel () was a fictional early 18th-century Russian inventor, who allegedly invented the hot air balloon fifty years before the Montgolfier brothers.

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Soviet disinformation campaign to discredit the Vatican

antireligious magazine of the Moscow Committee of the AUCP(b)

1939 revolt in Nowogródek Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic (now Belarus)

Soviet and Russian Cosmonaut Song

avant-garde propagandist theatre

Soviet miner (1902–1951)