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“We are not seeking the truth, but the effect of propaganda!”

Ten rules of Goebbels that still work

70 years ago, on October 29, 1944, Joseph Goebbels celebrated his last birthday. Goebbels is perhaps the most famous “classic of propaganda” in the history of mankind, whose “creative heritage” is relevant and in demand to this day. Suffice it to say that it was Goebbels who came up with the technique widely used by modern advertisers. When he became editor-in-chief of the National Socialist newspaper Der Angriff (Attack) in 1927, he first posted the cryptic message "Attack with us?" on billboards. The second poster proclaimed: "We attack on the 4th of July!". Finally, the third one explained that "Attack" was a new weekly publication. As history has shown, this was the most "vegetarian" innovation of the future "classic".

"The worst enemy of propaganda is intellectualism"

Soon appointed Reichsleiter of propaganda, Goebbels formulated fundamental professional postulates, here are the main ones:

- "guns and bayonets are nothing if you do not possess the hearts of the nation";

Mastering the masses is the only goal of propaganda;

To achieve this goal, any means are good, the main thing is that propaganda be effective;

Accordingly, in addition to "white", truthful information, it is necessary to use "gray", that is, half-truth, and "black" - an outright lie: "we are not seeking the truth, but the effect";

Moreover, “the more monstrous the lie, the more willingly they believe in it” and the faster it spreads;

"Propaganda should act more on the senses than on the mind"

And so that the crowd does not have doubts, the “messages” should be primitive, without details, at the level of a monosyllabic slogan: “the worst enemy of propaganda is intellectualism”;

In other words, "propaganda should influence feelings more than reason", and therefore be bright, catchy;

For the best assimilation of the message “we must speak in a language understandable to the people”, and even in different languages ​​- one for the capital, the other for the provinces, one for workers, the other for employees;

Praise the leaders and the people, constantly maintaining a high degree of ideological pathos and hysteria;

Endlessly repeating propaganda chatter: it’s hard not to succumb to its magic if an increasing number of people around you believe in it.

Researchers of Goebbels' activities tell how skillfully he used the "Nemmersdorf incident" when, during the offensive in East Prussia in October 1944, the Red Army shot 11 German civilians. Goebbels' propaganda machine unfolded an epic panorama of the atrocities of Soviet soldiers who allegedly raped, then mutilated and killed more than 60 German women. The falsified "pictures from the scene of the tragedy" drummed into the citizens of the Reich: do not give up!

"One people, one Reich, one Fuhrer"

Goebbels was one of the first to understand that the idea will be assimilated by the population much better if it is personified in the images of heroes and enemies that it is not a sin to come up with. This is how the “martyr, National Socialist Christ Horst Wessel” appeared. Well, thanks to the efforts of “Dr. Goebbels”, the Fuhrer naturally became God-Father: “It doesn’t matter much what we believe in, the main thing is to believe. A people without religion is like a person without breath. The "worshipper" Goebbels himself admitted: "My party is my church."

The author of a three-volume biography of Hitler, Joachim Fest, cites the case when, during the election campaign of 1932-33, Goebbels deliberately dragged out his speech so that the sun would come out from behind the clouds just at the moment of Hitler's appearance. Those elections were crowned with the triumph of the Nazis, and the religious Goebbels, who was struck by church rituals as a child, along with millions of compatriots, received a new deity: "One people, one Reich, one Fuhrer." "When the Fuhrer speaks, it acts like a divine service," the Reichsminister thanked on the day of Hitler's 53rd birthday.

"The German people do not need to know what the Fuhrer intends to do, they do not want to know"

The elections of 1933 went down in history for yet another circumstance: Hitler and Goebbels were almost the first to resort to modern means of transport, primarily aviation, “spudding” up to three dozen cities in a week. Goebbels generally paid close attention to technical innovations. By 1939, thanks to the installment sales program, 70% of German families listened to the radio (in 1932 there were three times less), "radio points" were placed in enterprises and public places. At the same time, television was emerging, and Goebbels dreamed of a “miracle” when “a living Fuhrer enters every house”: “We must be with the people every evening after a hard day and explain to them what they misunderstood during the day,” he set the task Goebbels. At the same time, in his opinion, broadcasting should be limited to news, speeches, sports reports and entertainment programs: "The German people do not need to know what the Fuhrer intends to do, they do not want to know."

These tasks were solved (and are being solved) by the next generations of propagandists, who, following their “teacher”, realize that television is an unsurpassed supplier of ready-made, solid, controlled images that you can’t argue with. And Goebbels managed to use TV to cover the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Do I need to explain that his skill turned the Olympics into a grandiose "exhibition of achievements" of Nazi Germany.

The lessons of the Bolsheviks

Goebbels' propaganda and organizational talents came into full play when the Nazis came to power in January 1933. Having become a minister, Goebbels activated another powerful resource - the repressive one. The role of internal and external "enemies of the people", guilty of all the problems of the state and society and subject to merciless extermination, was destined for liberals, Jews and Bolsheviks (by the way, before meeting Hitler, Goebbels was not an anti-Semite, he respected the Russians, extolling Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, and recognized the Bolsheviks as his mentors; indeed, the products of Bolshevik and Nazi propaganda have a striking similarity).

A month and a half after the Nazis came to power, bonfires from the list of banned books blazed throughout Germany

Already in March 1933, bonfires from the list of banned books, including the same Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, blazed all over Germany. To deal with dissent forever, censorship was introduced, independent publications were closed, journalists were declared civil servants, "enemies" were expelled from editorial offices, from cinema, literature, art, and science. Those who were lucky escaped in exile, the rest of the "degenerates" ended up in prisons and concentration camps, such as Theodor Wolf, editor-in-chief of the liberal newspaper Berliner Tageblatt, who at one time imprudently rejected fifty articles of the then unknown Goebbels.

“During the 12 years of the existence of the Third Reich, not a single worthy work of art has been created in the country, not a single talented book has been written,” notes Yuri Veksler, a publicist living in Germany (in fairness, we will mention the legendary documentary filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl). But how could this confuse Goebbels, whose goal was to capture the hearts of the "average Germans"?

"He became the first victim of his propaganda"

The apotheosis of Goebbels' activity is called the two-hour speech about "total war to a victorious end", delivered by him in February 1943, after the defeat at Stalingrad (according to the historical tale, leaving the podium, the speaker coldly threw: "It was an hour of idiocy if I shouted: "Throw yourself out of the window" - they would have done that too). However, no efforts of Goebbels saved either the Reich, or the Fuhrer, or himself, or his wife Magda and six children from disaster.

No efforts of Goebbels saved either himself or his wife Magda and six children.

Believing in Hitler's supernatural abilities, not only the masses, but also members of the "inner circle" lost the ability to critically perceive reality, cut themselves off from messages that spoke about the true state of affairs, and indulged in complacent illusions. As the German publicist and playwright Rolf Hochhut writes, in his 1945 diaries, Goebbels claims that the Führer will still accomplish "a feat decisive for the war." "He became the first victim of his propaganda," writes Hochhut.

They say that on the patch near the Reich Chancellery, where the Soviet soldiers found the burned corpses of Hitler and Goebbels, they subsequently laid out a playground.

This thesis attributed to Goebbels was actually stated by Hitler in the book Mein Kampf. I was reminded of this ideological paradox when I listened to Poroshenko's speech at the UN climate conference in Paris.
The Ukrainian leader started rather dashingly. “The truth spoken by Abraham Lincoln: A house divided within cannot stand. The earth is our home, at least this time it cannot be divided inside,” the head of state said. But what about Ukraine, dismembered by the Maidan, whose ideology Poroshenko represents? The president of Independent may have forgotten that Abraham Lincoln used a passage from the New Testament as a slogan during his "A House Divided" speech after he lost the US Senate election to Stephen Douglas. In that anti-slavery speech, Lincoln justified the impossibility of the country's continued existence in a state of "semi-slavery and semi-freedom."
It is interesting what role Pyotr Alekseevich assigned to the residents of Donbass, about whom he cynically stated: “We will have work - they won’t. We will have pensions - they don't. We will have support for people - children and pensioners - but they don't. Our children will go to schools and kindergartens, and they will sit in their basements. Because they can't do anything!" And this was said about the inhabitants of the most hard-working region of Ukraine, which has always provided the lion's share of the country's gross income. But did the President of Ukraine talk about people? God forbid, only the dregs of society live in the Donbass! Here is what he said at the conference: “Russian-backed terrorists have flooded many mines in the area, poisoning the drinking water, soil, flora and fauna of the region. Donbass has become only a base for Russian and pro-Russian terrorists. As a result, the atmosphere is heavily polluted by exploding munitions, as well as leaks from chemical plants and other industries."
Does anyone still believe that the militias, according to Ukrainian propaganda, like the last idiots, fired at themselves, their wives, old people and their own children only to slander the valiant fighters of Ukraine? Let me remind you that Poroshenko announced to the whole world: “Hardworking and peaceful people, which are the majority of Donetsk and Lugansk residents, have felt our sympathy, love and respect. The Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard and other units will never allow themselves to use force against civilians. They will never hit residential areas, Ukrainian soldiers and guardsmen will risk their own lives so as not to endanger women and children, elderly men. Such is the eternal knightly nature of the Ukrainian army.”
And these "valiant knights" hit the cities of Donbass and the chemical plants of Gorlovka and Donetsk with Tochka-U ballistic missiles, which are certainly not in the arsenal of the militias. However, Peter Alekseevich is firmly convinced that the Goebbels postulate is infallible, therefore he continues: “I believe that the issue of protecting the environment in the circumstances of this conflict should not remain without an adequate response from the community. This issue will be, among others, the focus of our activities, our events that are carried out by the UN system, as well as the UN environmental program.” I really want to believe that the world community will "adequately respond" to Poroshenko's lie and to the truth, which the Ukrainian president is actively trying to hide under the sheep's skin of his fiery speech.
Having entered the courage, the Ukrainian president is already beating his chest with his fists, talking excitedly about the great mission of reviving the ecological cleanliness of Ukraine entrusted to him as the most democratic of all the leaders of the country: “We carry this goal, despite the scale of the problems that Ukraine now has in the form of the coming restoration of Donbass, this is the restoration of infrastructure, industrial enterprises, railways, oil pipelines, gas pipelines and water pipelines, as well as social infrastructure. As a resident of Donetsk, I can confirm that Poroshenko does not throw words into the wind. Recently, “repair teams” have really begun to be pulled to the Donbass. For some reason, they only move in tanks and armored personnel carriers, accompanied by howitzers and multiple launch rocket systems. Looks like Petr Alekseevich decided to take an adult approach to the issue of restoring the region.
The President of Ukraine had short meetings with the Presidents of Austria, Latvia, Romania and the Prime Ministers of Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovakia and Greece. Poroshenko called on the leaders of these countries to extend sanctions against Russia due to its failure to comply with the Minsk agreements. Did you think that the Ukrainian president came to the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change COP21 to talk about ecology? No matter how! Taking advantage of the chance, when they could no longer ignore him, from the high international rostrum, Pyotr Alekseevich again hurried to transfer everything from a sick head to a healthy one. Only the Ukrainian leader forgot that the OSCE representatives staying in Donbas have already managed to report that it is the Ukrainian side that is the initiator of the failure of the Minsk agreements.
Representatives of the French media were not slow to give their assessment of Poroshenko's speech.
“Despite the fact that I understand what a difficult situation Ukraine is facing, this (performance) is an epic fail,” Faz Politic journalist wrote on Twitter.
“Poroshenko showed terrible taste in using the attacks in Paris to draw attention to Ukraine. It is not true and disgusting,” a journalist from France 24 expressed his emotions. “Ukrainians have suffered a terrible fate, but it is even worse to have a president who will do anything to get the sympathy of the world,” he added.
“Poroshenko made a tactless remark by trying to use the terrorist attacks in Paris to draw attention to Ukraine,” a Mashable journalist described the actions of the Ukrainian president.

Finally, I would like to ask a question: how do you feel about the thesis of Goebbels and what the President of Ukraine said at the UN climate conference in Paris?

The bigger the lie, the sooner it will be believed.

Attributed to the Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany, Joseph Goebbels. This is actually a paraphrased quote from Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) My Struggle (vol. 1, ch. 10): “The broad masses [...] fall prey to big lies (einer grossen Luge) rather than small ones.” .

Hence the English expression "Big Lie" born at that time.

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