“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, …
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Joseph Goebbels.
Official propaganda sources compete in finding the most ridiculous reasons to explain the genocide. Some cite “to much of video game playing” as a reason for excess deaths in children, others “global warming” disaster.
If you tell one lie people will dismiss you, when you tell a thousand they will adore you. Stalin knew how to use it perfectly.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Joseph Goebbels.
Official propaganda sources compete in finding the most ridiculous reasons to explain the genocide. Some cite “to much of video game playing” as a reason for excess deaths in children, others “global warming” disaster.
If you tell one lie people will dismiss you, when you tell a thousand they will adore you. Stalin knew how to use it perfectly.