74) dictatorship - democracy - propaganda Written by Rainer: rainer.lehrer@yahoo.com Learn languages (via Skype): Rainer: + 36 20 549 52 97 or + 36 20 334 79 74

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Dictatorship - democracy - propaganda North Korea, Cuba, Iran are countries with no democracy. We keep reading horror stories in the newspaper about death penalty, religious intolerance and lack of supplies. Someone even wrote a book about his stay in a North Korean labour camp. He had been born there and immediately escaped via China to the democratic world after he had broken out of the camp. Propaganda is probably sometimes no better in free countries than in dictatorships. If he knew nothing other than the camp, because he had been born there, how would he have known that after he had broken out he also had to leave the country to get into a democratic country in order to write his book there? This story sounds too fantastic to my ears. At the time of the communist regime, pictures and documentaries in western German TV about the Eastern bloc often appeared darkened in grey. Technically, that was no longer a problem even then. They probably wanted to give us the impression that even the sun didn't shine as bright there. And when one talks to Chinese retailers and restaurant owners, or to Iranian students at western universities about the political situation in their countries, they don't make the impression that they are so unhappy in their country. Where can one, as a normal citizen of the "free West", really get objective information? And haven't people learned anything from history and Hitler's propaganda? Back to list!

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