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Soviet propaganda book

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What this page covers

This hub gathers pages about Soviet propaganda and everyday life under real-world socialism, based on the first-hand account in The Red New Deal. It helps you see how official messages in the USSR compared with what people actually lived through.

Here you can explore how propaganda shaped views on class, work, freedom, and the so-called benefits of a planned economy, and how those lessons relate to today’s pro-socialist trends in Western democracies.

Use this page to choose the angle you care about most, from schools and censorship to rationing, cancel culture, and political messaging, and to understand the real cost hidden behind promises that everything can be free.

What to choose

  • Working class and bourgeois propaganda
  • See how Soviet and modern socialist narratives talk about the working class, success, and defeat, and how official stories can hide shortages, control, and limits on personal freedom.
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  • Internationalism and war

Where to go next

Below is a set of focused pages that look at different sides of Soviet propaganda and control. They connect official slogans and promises with daily routines, shortages, and restrictions described in The Red New Deal.

Use these pages to compare what people were told with what they actually experienced, and to draw your own conclusions about state power, cancel culture, and the real price of life under socialism.

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What matters

  • The material highlighted here is grounded in Dmitri Dubograev’s first-hand memories of growing up in the USSR, where propaganda, censorship, and planned-economy shortages were part of daily life. His stories show how nothing was truly free when the state controlled everything.
  • By reading across these topics, you see how propaganda worked not just through posters and speeches, but through school lessons, workplace rules, rationing, and pressure to conform. This context helps explain how people accepted limits on freedom in exchange for promised security.
  • These insights also speak to current debates in Western democracies, where some romanticize socialism without knowing its real cost. The Red New Deal invites you to question easy promises of free benefits and to think critically about what you might be trading away.
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