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What does the end of Communism in countries like Czechoslovakia tell us about the effectiveness of propaganda?
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I was just wondering about the peaceful revolution in Czechoslovakia (as it then was) which ended Communism. This was after some 40 years of Communist rule, with presumably a lot of propaganda in favour of Communist dictatorships and suppression of alternative views.

Has any historian analysed why Communist propaganda didn't work in Czechoslovakia, or other Eastern European countries like Poland, and what this says about the effectiveness or lack thereof? Are there theories of when propaganda works and when it doesn't?

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