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Im not sure if this is the right sub, so please point me in the right direction if I'm in the wrong place.

I saw a post here on Poal (on the front page, I didn't look at the sub) a few days ago regarding a Soviet NKVD PsyOp designed to encourage dissenters to identify themselves by availing to controlled oppositional organizations throughout the USSR. In this way, dissenters who might otherwise be seen as patriots were unmasked and sent to gulags or killed.

Does anyone know the name of this program, or have information about how these programs work and their effectiveness? I'm genuinely interested in this as a topic.

Thanks for your time.

Im not sure if this is the right sub, so please point me in the right direction if I'm in the wrong place. I saw a post here on Poal (on the front page, I didn't look at the sub) a few days ago regarding a Soviet NKVD PsyOp designed to encourage dissenters to identify themselves by availing to controlled oppositional organizations throughout the USSR. In this way, dissenters who might otherwise be seen as patriots were unmasked and sent to gulags or killed. Does anyone know the name of this program, or have information about how these programs work and their effectiveness? I'm genuinely interested in this as a topic. Thanks for your time.

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any more info on this? i searched for it but get many options, not sure which one you are reffering to

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I expect it's been purged.

It's a documentary on the origins of psychology, advertising, psychological warfare, and the phrase "conspiracy theory" as an ad hominem. The last of which is itself a psyop.

All advertising which makes you feel something is a psyop. All movies which make you feel something is a psyop. You'll see psyop tossed around as if it's negative. But the fact is, a psyop is simply a plan to make you feel something in a predetermined way. Music frequently plays a big role but is certainly not a requirement.

You feel cool driving a sports car? Adventurous driving a 4x4? Congrats, you feel that way because of a psyop.

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I think you might like this video on Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. The animations do a pretty good job of telling the philosophical points by themselves being cut from advertisements. You'll see modern stuff in it, but try and keep in mind this was written in France in the 60s.

https://youtu.be/HsHtSPub3w8