Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics:
[ColonelCassad] In light of the escalation of the armed conflict in the Middle East, our editors have pulled up issues from previous years from the archives. We wanted to show young readers of Pravda on social networks how similar the events of the past are to those happening now.
For publication, we chose an article that was published exactly 40 years ago in issue 283 (23809) on October 10, 1983 under the title “The occupiers are gaining a foothold. To the events in Lebanon".
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Our publication received wide distribution on the Internet. In particular, the famous military observer Boris Rozhin (Colonel Cassad) posted it on his channel in the Telegram messenger. About 300,000 subscribers read the material here alone.
But the most valuable thing was the reaction of readers to a note from the past, which turned out to be relevant today:
“The party and the newspaper Pravda didn’t lie to us, but we didn’t believe it, we thought they were exaggerating... And that’s how it turned out...,” writes the user with the nickname Mvvbd.
“In the attic of my grandmother’s house, I found Soviet newspapers from the 50s and 60s. I read it and compared it with what is happening now. It turned out to be the truth,” says a reader with the nickname Mr.X.
“Who would have thought that Pravda wrote the truth…” Evgenia is amazed.
“The longer I live, the more I am surprised: Soviet propaganda did not lie to us about the bestial nature of the imperialists, but we giggled at the cliches,” admits Lyudmila.
“Everything that Soviet propaganda “lied” to us turned out to be true,” states Kozma Cthulhu.
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“Everything that the Pravda newspaper wrote turned out to be true,” Vera Kolesnikova echoes him.
“It turns out that Pravda was telling the truth,” a user with the nickname Goest makes the discovery.
This became the leitmotif of a huge number of messages left by users. We greet such sincere confessions with twofold feelings. On the one hand, it’s joyful because finally, decades later, people have learned the true price of the streams of liberal anti-Soviet lies.
On the other hand, it hurts because understanding came so slowly and came at such a high price. Not everyone survived the collapse of the USSR, the era of “shock therapy”; the present time is also difficult for many with its real “grins of capitalism”, which Soviet citizens previously learned about from articles in Pravda, the Vremya and International Panorama programs.
Everything that Soviet propaganda “lied” turned out to be true: inflation, unemployment, social insecurity, and the hegemony of imperialism with its double standards and constant wars. Everything that the country created by the communists tried to protect its citizens from, free from class struggle, wishing its citizens peace and prosperity and telling them the truth, which not everyone wanted to hear.
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This science is very expensive: to understand what is actually true and what is a lie. Take care, comrades, this knowledge, do not lose it!
Ivan Egorov
I remember that in Soviet times, anti-Soviet propaganda in every possible way promoted the anti-Soviet joke “There is no Izvestia in Pravda, and there is no truth in Izvestia.”As is now not difficult to notice, “everything that Soviet propaganda lied about turned out to be true,” and “the voices of truth from the Voice of America and other similar garbage dumps turned out to be a total lie of Orwellian proportions, which is confirmed on a daily basis with the incredible depths of the bottom being broken through.