Exactly. I didn't mean to imply otherwise.
That was not US propaganda working, that was a backlash at Soviet propaganda.
Precisely. That is why I say our propaganda machine had to be envied by the Soviet propaganda machine. Back then, Muricans would believe anything bad, no matter how ridiculous, about the Soviet Union. That was never the case in the Soviet Union. Indeed, the Russians I met would not believe anything written in Pravda that was bad about the US - even if it were true.
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Mikem
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.
- Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"