• Jumi@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Propaganda is such an unbelievably strong tool. Just look at the Western world with its seemingly unlimited access to information, knowledge and education and how easily people are convinced of some bullshit.

    Russia was never a “free” country but stumbled from one autocracy into the next while the uneducated peasants stayed mostly uneducated peasants through the centuries.

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      9 hours ago

      In retrospect, the “information age” should be renamed to the “disinformation age.”