John McLean: The Pravda Post

The paper propagandizing for a New Zealand neo-Marxist Government in waiting

Pravda was the official newspaper of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party. Although Pravda means “Truth” in the Russian language, the Pravda newspaper wasn’t about truth. Quite the opposite. It was propaganda for the Soviet regime.

Jonathan Ayling: Desinformatsya - a Soviet hangover

The Disinformation Project represented so much of what is wrong with the censorship culture we’re experiencing in democracies like New Zealand today. The word disinformation itself has troubling origins, coined by Stalin to control public opinion.

I’ve studied 6 languages, and to me, big words can be fascinating.

The word obscurantism, for instance, means the use of technical or overly-complex language to confuse a meaning or make understanding a concept more difficult than it needs to be.