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Re:Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the ... by zzzcpan on Saturday January 12, 2019 @02:11PM (#18892753)
If you want to think of propaganda in terms of advertising, it's sort of judgement advertising. Doesn't really matter who pays for it. The purpose is to not let people make their own judgements on certain things. While the purpose of advertising products is to inform public about existence of products. Using propaganda in advertisement is usually illegal too.
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Re:Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the ... by lsc on Saturday January 12, 2019 @08:06PM (#18894335)
>the purpose of advertising products is to inform public about existence of products.

Really? It's not like any of us don't know of the existence of Coca-Cola; I think that the vast majority of advertising we encounter on a daily basis is for products we know about already (even though this is probably less true now than it was towards the beginning of my life.)

> Using propaganda in advertisement is usually illegal too.

citation?

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