i was reading a Wikipedia page for the samizdat and it seems like the samizdat where directly organizing a movement to improve the lives of soviet citizens i seems unfair to shut down a political movement like this
i was reading a Wikipedia page for the samizdat and it seems like the samizdat where directly organizing a movement to improve the lives of soviet citizens i seems unfair to shut down a political movement like this
Censorship was used as a strategy against the capitalist influence. We must acknowledge that imperialistic powers develop a lot of strategies for culturally influencing population under socialist regimes, to turn them against socialism.
This range from public initiatives, like Radio Free Europe/Asia to undercover financing of dissidents, false flag operations and even training and supporting terrorists groups, like Al Qaeda. Today, financing think tanks is a commons strategy too.
We can see a lot of this methods on Venezuela right now.
Understanding the reasons is not equal to supporting censorship. But acknowledging them move us to find better ways do protect socialist regimes from imperialist propaganda. It’s very naïve to think a socialist attempt can survive imperialist propaganda without defense mechanisms.