Yanc
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Post by Yanc on Jun 13, 2006 0:28:48 GMT -7
Hello I just watched a compilation of Polska Kronika Filmowa movies (polish movie chronicle) which was widely used as propaganda tools during communist regime. Here is the one of the hotspots:  Here is translation of the headline "Provocative american felony over the teritory of NRD (communist Germany)" USA planes drop potato beetles !!and in small letters: NRD will answer to american terrorist coup with even more resolute fight for peace. Now it sounds pretty funny. But then it was very serious, even if it was not true Yanc |
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Post by Yanc on Jun 13, 2006 1:06:12 GMT -7
Here are some more: Life in America - shown: Ku klux Klan, prostitution, afroamericans being hanged by whites, police country.    Korea war - shown: US military personel, first biological warfare used by american on civilians and of course poor korean peasants with displays "US navy go home" etc. West Europe - US military personel on the streets, drunken US sailors sleeping in parks and other public places, MPs patrolling streets, american warships everywhere. and audio comment: "Everything for the americans, best hotels, best food, best cars etc.." comment2: "According to american scientist, american are the highest evolved people in the world" - shown american soldiers with prostitutes, drunken soldiers.  Display od modern art:   |
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Post by jimpres on Jun 13, 2006 7:43:28 GMT -7
Yanc,
Yes, my cousing told me about how the government told him about the US dropping robaki so they would eat the potatoes.
He did not believe it.
Jim
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Post by Jaga on Jun 13, 2006 19:57:16 GMT -7
Yanc, when I was working in the Library of Congress in Washington DC I had to read through this propaganda-BS articles about the potato beetle  By the way, in America the stores were full of products because the poor worker could not afford to buy so much like the Polish or Soviet workers |
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Post by Jaga on Jun 13, 2006 19:58:45 GMT -7
Yanc,
don't you remember than even quite recently the minister Jerzy Urban was trying to send sleeping bags to the homeless in New York!
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Pawian
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Post by Pawian on Jun 19, 2006 2:58:18 GMT -7
Hello I just watched a compilation of Polska Kronika Filmowa movies (polish movie chronicle) which was widely used as propaganda tools during communist regime. I heard they have released a DVD with old Kronikas. Did you buy it? |
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Post by Pawian on Jun 19, 2006 3:01:32 GMT -7
Yanc, Yes, my cousing told me about how the government told him about the US dropping robaki so they would eat the potatoes. He did not believe it. Jim Americans sent balloons with info leaflets or mock banknotes to Eastern countries, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Radio Free Europe participated in this project in 50s. |
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Post by pieter on Nov 5, 2008 0:53:17 GMT -7
Interesting too! A part of Polish propaganda history!
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