Propaganda is an attempt to prepare a mood, preliminary to preparing a revolt in the future.
The Moscow Church Trial, Apr 26 - May 7, 1922
Presiding Judge to Patriarch Tikhon: "You therefore consider that the Soviet government acted incorrectly?"
A crushing argument! It will be repeated a million times more in the nighttime offices of the interrogators! And we will never answer as simply and straightforwardly as:
The Patriarch: "Yes".
... On May 7 sentence was pronounced: of the 17 defendants, 11 were to be shot.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, "The Gulag Archipelago" (p 348-51)
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