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by camelite 1939 days ago
Propaganda is not an inherently russian technique and that fact that you believe so implies you are a victim of anti russian propaganda.
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I explicitly mention firehose of falsehoods.

I didn't say that propaganda is solely Russian. But that technique is closely aligned to Russian propaganda which we can all "admire" in the open ( eg. rt)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood#:~:tex....

Please, don't change subjects. The technique used by T. Is most similar to what i mentioned. You haven't given any source to discredit that.

The firehose of falsehood is propaganda sure, but it's principles were consciously and deliberately developed by the USSR as a particular propaganda technique. It's partly based on the rhetorical strategies used by Lenin. One of his (Russian) biographers called him the godfather of post-truth politics.