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Hey, two Josephs, Stalin and Goebbels, led the league in the "Big Lie."

Orwell's "Two Plus Two Equal Five" was an actual neon sign in Moscow to encourage the proletariat to work harder.

Lovable Uncle Joe had his propaganda teams airbrush "unpersons" out of photographs, and turned Trotsky into a traitor. Then he gave him the axe, which is on display at the Spy Museum in Washington.

Goebbels opened World War II by saying that U-30 did not sink RMS Athenia and kill some of its American civilian passengers...Winston Churchill put a bomb on it. And he got worse from there.

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A successful formula of promising something that may be different when delivered. It goes back to the Trojan Horse. Seems to still be the default strategy.

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Absolutely true.

"Bait and switch" applies to politics as it does to car dealers.

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Good story Old, it would be way more laughable, if it wasn't so plausible!

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Having spent the morning in AFib, my heart and brain can’t take much more. But this seems a very clever way to impart an important lesson so I have liked it.

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