Igor Aidman: "New slavery"

"The Putin regime is not freer, but more sophisticated than the Soviet. Soviet propaganda did not know how to work in conditions of free access to information. It was uncompetitive. Therefore, the authorities were jammed" voices ", put their mouths, plugged their mouths with any dissidents," the sociologist writes on Facebook .

“The Soviet man subconsciously guessed that they“ hide something ”from him; about his deprivation and slavery. Therefore, when the Gorbachev glasnost began, people literally attacked the information forbidden before the toy to the toys from them. After that, the communist propaganda stopped working, and the USSR was staggered and collapsed soon.

Putin's propaganda is more powerful and effective. It is more expensive, brighter, more emotional. She brilliantly knows how to play on the lowest (and means strong) feelings of the crowd. At the same time, propaganda is instrumentally diverse, uses a lot of psychological techniques and political technological practices. The whole policy of the country, even war and terrorist attacks, are put to her service.

Federal television channels, working exclusively for power, know how to create the illusion of polyphony and pluralism with the public. In their information field there are specially selected "dissenters" who, who, by naivety, who are of vanity, and who, for money, allow themselves to be used as beating boys, playing with propagandists in gawing.

The Kremlin knows that if an opposition minority is deprived of information outlets, an explosion may occur. Therefore, the infrastructure of pseudo -polation media and parties has been created. They imitate a political protest safe for the authorities. Thus, the regime uses for its purposes not only pro -government, but also, as it were, an “opposition” information agenda.

Putin's "postmodern" totalitarianism is much more stable than the Soviet. The controlled imitation of freedom is used as an effective vaccine against the desire for real freedom. The authorities can manipulate and subordinate any categories of citizens to their interests, up to liberals and "opposition". Putin’s man, being essentially a slave, does not even know about it. ”