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00:00:03In early November 2025,
00:00:06NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte urged the countries
00:00:09of the North Atlantic Alliance to prepare, quote: for
00:00:12a long-term confrontation with Russia. Russia
00:00:15will remain a destabilizing force in Europe and the world. They
00:00:19are preparing for a prolonged confrontation. We cannot be
00:00:22naive. The inevitability of conflict with our country
00:00:25is also predicted by the chief of the general staff of the French
00:00:28armed forces, General.
00:00:30and proposes a plan for rearmament of the country for the next 3 years.
00:00:34The first goal I set for the armed forces is
00:00:38to be ready for a shock in 3-4 years. The course for
00:00:41active militarization of the country was also adopted by the authorities
00:00:44of the FRG. This was stated at the end of October by the head of the Federal
00:00:47Intelligence Service, Martin Jäger, speaking in the
00:00:50Bundestag. Statements by Western and European
00:00:53politicians about the escalation of the conflict with our country look especially
00:00:57contradictory against the background of regular statements from Moscow
00:01:00that Russia has no political or
00:01:03economic reasons to enter into confrontation with NATO
00:01:06countries. Moreover, it was Washington and its allies
00:01:10who in recent years have launched unprecedented military
00:01:13activity near our borders. We see how, in fact,
00:01:16we saw how NATO absorbed first the countries of Eastern
00:01:20Europe, then the Baltics, well, then it began to enter
00:01:24the post-Soviet space, onto the territory
00:01:27of republics no longer Baltic. of the Soviet Union,
00:01:31in particular Ukraine, Moldova,
00:01:34Georgia. Here, of course, for Russia, this is already, as they say, a red
00:01:38line. What is behind the calls of Western politicians
00:01:41to prepare for confrontation with our country? According to Moscow, this is
00:01:45part of a global strategy of ideological warfare, which
00:01:48is being waged by the participants of the North Atlantic Alliance.
00:01:51Justifying aggression on their part, they are trying to convince
00:01:55the world community that they are allegedly deterring the Russian
00:01:58threat. This, of course, is an ideology not
00:02:02new, it has two
00:02:05obvious reasons: this is, of course, foreign
00:02:08policy, the fanning
00:02:11of the atmosphere, the second is domestic policy,
00:02:14the justification of all turmoil,
00:02:18disarray, internal problems, but there is also
00:02:21a third reason, which for centuries Russian
00:02:24thinkers, journalists,
00:02:27writers, have investigated. This
00:02:30is an inexplicable, at times irrational, inexplicable
00:02:34hatred for Russia. Western countries led by Washington
00:02:37keenly feel the change in the balance of power in the world, the strengthening
00:02:41of military and economic alliances, for example, between Russia and
00:02:44China, as well as India, frightens the White House and forces
00:02:48it to act aggressively both in the political and
00:02:51informational fields, moreover, Western countries use methods
00:02:55of ideological confrontation formed back in the years
00:02:58of the Cold War. Immediately after the end of World War II,
00:03:02the United States began to wage a systematic
00:03:05ideological struggle against the Soviet Union. One of
00:03:08the main players in this confrontation was
00:03:11the US Information Agency, founded in
00:03:141953. It was responsible for
00:03:18disseminating American ideals and values abroad
00:03:21through radio, print publications, and
00:03:25cinema. For example, Radio Free Europe, which
00:03:28was created with CIA money, broadcast news and
00:03:32programs to Eastern Bloc countries, thus,
00:03:35Washington tried to reduce Moscow's influence on
00:03:39its allies and undermine their trust in Soviet
00:03:42power. How American propaganda worked during
00:03:46the Cold War, why ideological warfare became one of
00:03:50the key tools in the struggle between the USA and the Soviet
00:03:53Union? What propaganda technologies
00:03:56does the West use today to promote its
00:03:58interests? third in our
00:04:01film.
00:04:07On March 12, 1947,
00:04:09US President Harry Truman addressed Congress with a speech that
00:04:13went down in history as the Truman Doctrine. In
00:04:17particular, the document implied providing Greece and Turkey
00:04:20with aid amounting to 400 million dollars to combat,
00:04:24quote: the communist threat. We must frankly
00:04:28admit that the free countries of the world are threatened by direct or indirect
00:04:32aggression from totalitarianism, and this threatens
00:04:34world peace and hinders the security
00:04:37of America. The foreign policy program proposed by Truman
00:04:41consisted of military and financial support for states not
00:04:44belonging to the countries of the socialist bloc.
00:04:47However, in exchange for aid, the White House reserved the right to influence
00:04:51the internal policies of its satellites, as well as to create
00:04:54American military bases on their territories. In Greece, there was a
00:04:58civil war in... in Turkey there were also very strong
00:05:01pro-Soviet sentiments, in both states there were strong
00:05:05communist parties. Truman undoubtedly argued
00:05:08before senators that money should be allocated to suppress there...
00:06:12the Cold War, and the very
00:06:16provisions of that Cold War that followed
00:06:19were outlined in Truman's speech in 1947,
00:06:23in order to prevent communists from coming to power, such a political
00:06:26action was taken: money in exchange for
00:06:29loyalty, and this line was subsequently
00:06:32used. Only those countries that blindly
00:06:36obeyed them and followed Washington's lead received
00:06:39economic aid from the US. In Washington, the Truman
00:06:43Doctrine caused a mixed reaction, in particular, members of the team
00:06:46of ex-President Franklin Roosevelt called the policy of the head
00:06:49of the White House - quote "Insanity." In the conditions of, let's say,
00:06:53the then emerging Cold War, well, some
00:06:57American politicians, primarily from the democratic
00:07:00camp, they were such left-wing democrats, they believed that the Truman
00:07:04Doctrine would lead to a sharp aggravation of relations with the Soviet Union, which
00:07:07would bring the world to the brink of a Third World War, moreover, which
00:07:10could already be such a total and
00:07:14nuclear character, atomic character, first of all, yes, many, in fact, opposed
00:07:18it. Less than a month after the announcement of the Truman Doctrine,
00:07:21on April 9, 1947,
00:07:24the special envoy of US President Harold
00:07:28Stassen arrived in Moscow for a visit. Stassen was one
00:07:31of the clear precedents for the presidency of the United
00:07:35States of America, here he had an
00:07:38advantage among other candidates, but unfortunately
00:07:42for him... he lost one of the
00:07:45elections in the states to one of
00:07:48his party opponents, and basically this
00:07:51trip of 1947 was
00:07:54made by him on his personal initiative in order to gain
00:07:58certain points in the fight for the presidential chair. During
00:08:01the reception in Moscow, Stassen wanted to discuss with Joseph Stalin
00:08:05the prospects for the development of Soviet-American
00:08:07relations.
00:08:42does not threaten the Soviet Union, they are ready to
00:08:45cooperate with him, but in fact it was an attempt
00:08:49to mislead Stalin, but Stalin was a wise
00:08:52man, he perfectly understood that it was a deception. On
00:08:56March 21, 1947, President Truman issued
00:08:59Executive Order No. 9835,
00:09:02known as the witch hunt. According to the document,
00:09:06all those employed in federal service had to undergo,
00:09:09quote: A loyalty check. At the same time,
00:09:12the committee for the investigation of un-American activities,
00:09:15created back in 1934,
00:09:18began its active work. Republican
00:09:21Senator Joseph McCarthy,
00:09:24a proponent of ultra-right views,
00:09:27was appointed responsible for implementing the presidential
00:09:30order. Truman's decree indeed preceded a broader
00:09:33campaign, so-called McCarthyism, named after
00:09:37American Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was such
00:09:40a completely stubborn and aggressive
00:09:42anti-communist, who often saw communists even in, well,
00:09:46such very, I would say, moderate and
00:09:49harmless people, that is, there was such a, well, rigid
00:09:52pressure and coercion on dissidents, and many
00:09:55had to leave the United States of America. By the way, this
00:09:59campaign then affected Hollywood, in particular, Charlie
00:10:03Chaplin was forced to leave the USA and settle in
00:10:06Switzerland, since then, well, he demonstratively did not
00:10:10visit the United States of America, even. when they re-evaluated
00:10:13these priorities. McCarthyites accumulated all
00:10:17resources to conduct propaganda against the Soviet Union. They
00:10:20implemented the idea of using radio as an instrument
00:10:24of informational... psychological warfare. On March 26,
00:10:271946, the Russian service
00:10:31of the BBC began broadcasting to the USSR. A year later,
00:10:35on February 17, 1947,
00:10:38the radio station "Voice of America" became available
00:10:41to Soviet citizens. This is how the radio hosts described
00:10:44their goals in the first broadcast: to give listeners in the USSR
00:10:47an idea of American life and contribute
00:10:51to strengthening friendship between the Soviet and American peoples.
00:10:55When the Cold War was unleashed, of course, the main
00:10:58focus for the mass media
00:11:01of the United States of America was to directly
00:11:05cultivate the population of the Soviet Union
00:11:08with disinformation, showing the advantage of the capitalist system
00:11:11over the socialist one, telling some
00:11:14interesting facts from the history of the Soviet
00:11:17Union, about which the residents of the USSR
00:11:21knew little, and also there was a lot
00:11:26of information that was practically inaccessible
00:11:29to many citizens of the USSR, because newspapers in the Soviet
00:11:33Union did not fully show even the
00:11:36internal political struggle that was going on in the CPSU. In
00:11:391949, Voice of America began broadcasting in
00:11:43Ukrainian, and from 1951,
00:11:46it was already broadcasting in Georgian, Armenian, and
00:11:49Azerbaijani, as well as Lithuanian and Latvian.
00:11:52For the first time, the radio station Voice
00:11:55of America began broadcasting in February 1942.
00:11:59It was created as
00:12:02a tool to combat Nazi propaganda, which during the years of World
00:12:05War II proved its effectiveness. But the paradox is
00:12:09that the radio, which was actively used to counteract
00:12:12the ideology of the Nazis, Washington turned into a weapon in the Cold
00:12:15War against Moscow. Moreover,
00:12:18Western politicians actively applied the principles of agitation
00:12:22developed by the Reich Minister of the People.
00:13:36Russia is seeking a critical defeat of Ukrainian
00:13:39bridges,
00:13:43Kyiv is switching to generators and multi-hour power
00:13:47outages, the enemy, the enemy has significantly either destroyed or
00:13:50damaged all electricity generation in the capital, how are moods changing?
00:21:45the National Committee for Free Europe founded
00:21:48Radio Free Europe. The main goal was
00:21:52to broadcast anti-communist ideas to
00:21:54countries supporting the USSR. On July
00:21:584, 1950, broadcasting began from West
00:22:01Germany to the states of the socialist bloc in
00:22:05Europe. The radio station covered the territories of Bulgaria,
00:22:08Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
00:22:12From 1953, the radio was renamed
00:22:15Svoboda (Liberty), while the National Committee for Free Europe,
00:22:19which founded the radio, was controlled and financed by
00:22:22the CIA. The money, well, it was
00:22:25really enormous, because it was necessary here, as they say, to
00:22:29buy loyalty, it was necessary to spend on
00:22:32material and technical support, on
00:22:35working with certain of their agents undercover
00:22:38in the journalistic environment, on various
00:22:41trips, conferences, on dropping
00:22:45even in some cases agents, yes, on
00:22:48supporting immigrants and so on. That is, it was about millions
00:22:52of dollars then, yes, those millions are essentially current
00:22:55billions. Anti-Soviet propaganda on Radio Free Europe
00:22:59fully met the goals that President Truman defined back in
00:23:03September 1949. Then National Security Council
00:23:07Memorandum No. 58 was approved. We must conduct
00:23:10an offensive not only with overt, but also with covert operations. The course
00:23:14to incite division within the communist world should
00:23:18be conducted discreetly, for this should not obscure our ultimate
00:23:22goal: the creation of a non-totalitarian system in Eastern
00:23:25Europe. While Stalin was
00:23:28alive, against this policy, it was possible to build a certain system
00:23:32of protection. That is, of course, subversive activities were carried out with the
00:23:36help of infiltrators, saboteurs, spies,
00:23:39and other, in fact, knights of the cloak and dagger, as well as with the help of some
00:23:43internal opposition, in some cases with the help of religious organizations, in
00:23:47particular in Poland, it was very much used
00:23:52in anti-Soviet activities, in
00:23:541953, by decision of the American Congress,
00:23:58the US Information Agency was founded, another joint project
00:24:02of the CIA and the Pentagon. The agency
00:24:06specialized in collecting and analyzing the most important political,
00:24:09economic and international events. All this was transmitted to
00:24:13newspaper and magazine editorial offices, to television and
00:24:16radio. According to open sources, the US
00:24:20agency spent up to 1 billion
00:24:24dollars annually on propaganda campaigns. There were so-called
00:24:27three types of enemy propaganda: white,
00:24:30gray, and black propaganda. This white propaganda, which was mostly
00:24:34conducted in the 1940s on the radio, involved taking facts that
00:24:38characterized the Soviet Union in a negative light, and these facts
00:24:41were broadcast. Gray propaganda involved these
00:24:45unpalatable facts being analyzed, that is...
00:24:48adding some details and giving an assessment, and black
00:24:51propaganda simply involved creating
00:24:55absolutely false, but terrible myths,
00:24:58which were also attributed to the Soviet Union, they were spread,
00:25:02well, as Goebbels once said, the more terrible the lie,
00:25:05the sooner people will believe it. In the mid-1950s,
00:25:08against the USSR and the countries of the Eastern
00:25:12Bloc, such propaganda radio stations as
00:25:15Voice of America, BBC and
00:25:18Svoboda (Liberty) were working. They could be found on short waves in the ranges from
00:25:2116 to 49 meters. About
00:25:2480% of the airtime was occupied by programs
00:25:27advertising American values. The main emphasis
00:25:31was placed on the youth audience. A separate,
00:25:34very important element of Western propaganda was
00:25:38music. This was also an element of forbidden
00:25:41fruit, which always has the effect of feeling that you are not
00:25:45allowed to listen, that you are
00:25:47restricted, that we want to have fun,
00:25:51they impose Komsomol songs on us, this was also
00:25:54an element, and but as life shows,
00:25:57complete freedom, yes, on the Internet, in the
00:26:01music business. in show business in general, in
00:26:04information and cultural policy leads generally to
00:26:07madness to
00:26:10degradation. Jamming, as they said at the time, enemy voices in
00:26:13the Soviet Union, began back in late 1948.
00:26:17For this, by order of the Propaganda and Agitation
00:26:21Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU, a system of technical
00:26:24means was developed, allowing to create radio interference in
00:26:27the broadcasting range of Western stations. Moreover, in Soviet
00:26:31electrical goods stores.
00:27:02knew exactly where each Western
00:27:05radio station was located, well, these enemy
00:27:09voices served this purpose. In parallel with the introduction of a system for jamming Western
00:27:12radio stations, the Soviet government strengthened its own
00:27:15foreign broadcasting. In Great Britain,
00:27:18Germany, France, and the USA, Moscow Radio
00:27:21had been operating since 1929.
00:27:25By 1950, it had expanded its broadcasting
00:27:28range to Canada. From August 1963,
00:27:32news broadcasts and analytical programs
00:27:36concerning relations between the USSR and the USA
00:27:39began to be aired on the radio. The ideological war of the Soviet
00:27:42Union was a mirrored response, it
00:27:45demonstrated, well, the attractiveness, so to speak, of the Soviet
00:27:48state, therefore the media underwent a rather serious
00:27:52transformation. In addition, following the American
00:27:55model, we are building, at Khrushchev's
00:27:58suggestion, certain points that for the whole
00:28:02world
00:28:05should become a symbol of the attractiveness of the Soviet Union and its development,
00:28:07for example, GUM, the State Department Store, was then in
00:28:11the fifties on Red Square reconstructed according
00:28:14to the model of the best American boutiques, and it was supposed
00:28:18to demonstrate to the entire Western world
00:28:21that in the Soviet Union there was an abundance of food, many different
00:28:25consumer goods, all this in wide access
00:28:28in the fifties and sixties - this is a period when...
00:28:32a serious reorganization of the media responsible for
00:28:36foreign policy takes place. In these years,
00:28:38the Soviet TASS agency receives world status. By
00:28:421967, it had offices and correspondents
00:28:46in almost all European countries, as well as in fifteen
00:28:49Latin American and 24 African
00:28:53states. As for the United States, there
00:28:56the Soviet information agency opened its bureau back in
00:28:591923, although. then it
00:29:03was called the Russian Telegraph Agency or
00:29:06simply. Before the Second World World War in the New York office
00:29:09several employees, US
00:29:12citizens, worked. Indeed, the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union became the most powerful,
00:29:16of course, information agency, that's one, on the other hand, it was also a kind of
00:29:19tribute to the foreign policy conjuncture, because the Soviet Union
00:29:23eventually abandoned the idea of defeating
00:29:27the West and preferred the so-called doctrine of peaceful
00:29:30coexistence of different systems. In the Soviet
00:29:38Union, for example, in the seventies, in the early eighties, for example, the sale of America magazine and England magazine was officially allowed, yes, that is, as they say, in which
00:29:41the notorious American British way
00:29:44of life was propagated, but without politics. During the Cold War,
00:29:48Moscow regarded the protests taking place within the US as
00:29:51an important front in the struggle for the minds of citizens, especially young people
00:29:55and students. So, for example, from the mid-sixties,
00:29:58an anti-war movement formed in large American cities.
00:30:03in Vietnam. By 1967, the protests had reached the scale
00:30:07of a national crisis. The Soviet government took advantage
00:30:10of the moment and launched an active anti-war
00:30:14agitation in the United States. The greatest effect was achieved by the anti-war
00:30:18propaganda launched by the Soviet Union in the US itself. It
00:30:22was based on real anti-war sentiments of the left and
00:30:25liberal public. The anti-war forces, including
00:30:29with unofficial Soviet support, managed to and...
00:30:40States of America, therefore the Soviet Union used, among other things,
00:30:44the Communist Party of the USA, although it was small in number,
00:30:47it was not very popular, as well as the youth movement,
00:30:51the youth movement, including the hippie movement,
00:30:54it had an anti-war
00:30:56orientation, and at the same time received
00:31:00wide support within the country. And this youth
00:31:03movement, it largely contributed.