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General Category => Domestic & World News => Topic started by: AngelOfThyNight on December 06, 2019, 03:10:34 AM

Title: Garry Kasparov: I lived in the post-truth Soviet world and I hear its echoes in Trump's America
Post by: AngelOfThyNight on December 06, 2019, 03:10:34 AM
Garry Kasparov: I lived in the post-truth Soviet world and I hear its echoes in Trump's America

The totalitarian Soviet Union where I grew up tried to dominate the truth, to distort it and control it. Reality was whatever the Party put out on the nightly news, or in the official newspapers, Pravda, which means "Truth" and Izvestia, which means "News."



Source: Garry Kasparov: I lived in the post-truth Soviet world and I hear its echoes in Trump's America (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/lvO-by59It8/index.html)