If I repeat myself, I apologize. My family and I were in the Soviet Union when the Manson murders occurred. Pravda, of course, ran a few articles about it. NONE of the Russians we talked to believed it had happened (the popular view there among the people was that nothing bad could ever happen in the US. It was the land of milk and honey.) They all said, "Oh, you can't believe that really happened. It was reported in Pravda. You can't believe anything you read in Pravda."

The effectiveness of their propaganda was never a match for ours.