NotStan said:
Your comparison of the modern advertising methods to the previously used soviet propaganda are amusing. You're right, I am sure MS goes off to kidnap a family in order to blackmail opposition, or it opresses any religion or open mindness amongst it's consumers, or claim that the world revolves around MS products. Really the comparison is laughable, what you're doing is reading too much into the events that occur, not everything has a hidden message like it used to in the time of Soviet development. Yeah I may be young, but History is an interesting aspect for me, Soviet Russia in particular so I did pay great attention, as they say "In Soviet Russia, party finds you!". |
I already answered you in a previous post that these are the techniques communist parties used in western and neutral countries, where they didn't hold absolute power and people were free to express not communist opinions and counter propaganda. In Soviet Russia methods were very different, although also there Stalin always started a smear campaign against his future victims before eliminating them, for example like he did with Yagoda, Bukharin, and most notably Trotsky.
And there is really nothing strange in a western corporation using soviet propaganda techniques, some of them worked quite well to persuade million simpletons people.
BTW, I always clearly wrote "propaganda", pure words and nothing else, not violent methods.