What the hell are you talking about? That’s like saying it’s inconsistent for a basketball team to try and score points while also trying to prevent the opposing team from also scoring points. It’s certainly adversarial, but so was the geopolitical relationship between the Soviet Union and the West.
> I think you meant to say…
Don’t patronize me. I meant to say exactly what I said.
The hypothesized messaging, that is. There's no evidence of such a propaganda campaign from Soviet side in those years (cover or overt), so this entire discussion is moot anyway.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PropagandaPosters/comments/k4iggr/a...
It's also why the Chornobyl facility was officially named the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant, and so on.
The only thing they didn't do was "promote anti-nuclear propaganda in the West".
Which is simply: even after several iterations on this topic -- no one seems to be able to point to any actual indications of the Soviets having promoted such propaganda in the West.