Propoganda and its impacts?

Question

Hi! I'm doing a research paper on the topic "Propoganda and its impacts". The first answer anyone would think of for the impacts part would be that it brainwashes people. However, in the case of Russia (Stalin's rule), the people were suffering and they roughly knew what was happenning in the outside world (I think). So were they really brainwashed? As in, did they really believe that Stalin was helping them?

Answer 1

In the USSR, not just Russia, they only new what the regime told them about the outside world, so yes it was propaganda on a scale like none other, well perhaps a few.
North Korea, China and many Islamic countries practise it to this day.

Answer 2

Propaganda is an important tool used to influence the population in a way that makes the people more accepting of an idea or action. Propaganda can make a population: hate a particular group, as Hitler used it, think that their country is prosperous, when it was not, as Stalin used it, or, to sway the population to believe they have an enemy, such as the United States did in the weeks leading up to the Spanish American War ( see "The Sinking of the Maine" incident).
Propaganda is cheap, unlimited, and highly effective.
Propaganda is not always deceptive, however. There is propaganda that is trying to influence people to stop smoking, drink milk, and combat global warming.
The concept of propaganda itself, is not malignant, it all depends on the motives of the people behind it.

Answer 3

First off - Russia was not the only country to utilise PROPAGANDA. Every nation that fought in the Great War and in the Second World War - and beyond - has utilised PROPAGANDA for the disemination of its political ideas.
Of course many believed that "Uncle Joe" was helping them, even well after he died. For the Americans, please see the World War II Walt Disney propaganda films such as - 'You're a Sap Mr. J-ap" and more.