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Russian Propaganda
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Laurie Taylor talks to Nina Khrushcheva, Professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York City about her research into the propaganda formulas deployed by Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin over the last two decades. As the great granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union between 1958 and 1964, she offers personal, as well as political insights, into these developments, drawing on previous periods of oppression in Russian history. She argues that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has intensified 'hard' propaganda, leading to a pervasive presence of military images in every day life and the rehabilitation of Josef Stalin, the former dictator of the Soviet Union, as a symbol of Russian power. She suggests that lessons from past eras, described by such Soviet classics as Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, can offer small grounds for optimism and hope, as ordinary people absorb alternative narratives. How else to explain the fact that George Orwell's dystopian novel, 1984, has been a bestseller for many years and has seen a surge in popularity since the start of the war in Ukraine?

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dzg9

I wonder if Marc Benioff had to pay a million to Trump AND give him the front cover … or was man o’ the year sufficient? #ThinkingAllowed #ThinkingAloud

(I'm trying to say something like this, for which I'm finding a meme-generator (https://meme-generator.com/) more adept. I'm sure this relies on #AI, too, but not the 'generative' sort (correct?), the kind that promises to 'understand' or even tell you what you are thinking)

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Thinking Allowed, Taste and Lifestyle.

'The 1960s-70s new middle class in the UK - those working in communications, the media, service industries, higher education and the arts...
...were the shock troops of gentrification.'

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