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Originally posted by Dirty Meg:
Both sides were just as dependent on propaganda. British newspapers from 1939-1945 were full of stories like 'German soldier rapes nun on table' (as if the table made it worse). Both sides launched campaigns of misinformation to attack the enemy.
It still happens today, with nonsense stories about Iraq's WMD, or Iraq's minister of information standing in front of ruined buildings, claiming the US forces were being driven back.
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Of course both sides were dependant on propaganda. What I was saying is that the Nazis and the Soviets were using it much more. When the germans occupied most of western Russia the Soviets told their people that it was a strategic move to draw back into the middle of the country, while in reality they were being beaten.
German propaganda told the german people that they were going to beat the allies in the Ardennes. Yet they did not.
IMO the "western" propaganda was on a much smaller scale and the lies told were also smaller.