Originally Posted by
Jean
1. We didn't believe. We didn't fucking believe you really were told such lies about us. We were told about "mock attacks" you have and all the rest of it that you mention in your post... and we didn't believe. By the time I describe (seventies till mid-eighties) we had been all firmly convinced that ours is the most ridiculous, the most absurd propaganda possible, so no wonder it tells us lies about your propaganda, exaggerating and overblowing, and, well - just lying. Because surely no propaganda but Soviet could be that stupid!
2. We were sure that even if you are exposed to at least some amount of such propaganda, you didn't believe it, just like we did't believe ours... Surely, we thought and said to each other, the people of the USA couldn't believe such things, they were not idiots, were they? Surely they had access to information that would let them see that we are no monsters, that we are people like them? That we, too, want to live in peace, etc, etc, etc...
Donna: no, we weren't really taught "true way", either... we were taught to believe that American people only dream of overthrowing the capitalist rule and join the happy famiily of socialist countries, and that the Communist Party in the USA was the inspiring force between all progressive developments there... and that foul capitalists drug the people with pornography, violence, narcotics, and pseudo-"art"... Another thing is that, while our grandfathers believed every word of it, and our fathers about 30%, we (born in the early 60s) were already the generation which didn't believe a word of the propaganda.