Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Paul Goble: Russian propaganda different and much more disturbing than its Soviet predecessor
An employee stands by TV sets in a shop in Moscow on April 16, 2015 during the broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual televised phone-in with the nation.
In George Orwell's classic novel of totalitarianism, 1984, Big Brother, the ruler of the state, doled out "two minutes of hate" each day, perhaps calculating that that amount would keep people on edge and in line but not send them over the edge into dangerous pathologies of aggression and violence.