Re:The Artful Propaganda of Soviet Children’s Literature
by coldtea on Saturday June 17, 2017 @08:49PM
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>My grandparents are pretty sure Tito gave them a nice cushy life.
Yeah, but note that your grandparents also had life before socialism to compare, and, whatever troubles the regime had, regimes and lives before it weren't that nice in most of the Balkan either. So it might not be that propaganda worked better on them, but that they legitimately thought their conditions had been improved.
It's not like they went from cushy capitalist life to soviet style misery -- it was lots of war, national tensions, conscription, hard village life, culminating of course to the horror that was WWII.
And Tito was a bug war hero (for them, but legitimately too), and did held the country together (way better than his successors did post-socialism, so there's that).
Yeah, but note that your grandparents also had life before socialism to compare, and, whatever troubles the regime had, regimes and lives before it weren't that nice in most of the Balkan either. So it might not be that propaganda worked better on them, but that they legitimately thought their conditions had been improved.
It's not like they went from cushy capitalist life to soviet style misery -- it was lots of war, national tensions, conscription, hard village life, culminating of course to the horror that was WWII.
And Tito was a bug war hero (for them, but legitimately too), and did held the country together (way better than his successors did post-socialism, so there's that).