March 18, 2014

At the beginning of class today, the gulag list was read off once more.
The first presentation we had today was the presentation for education. The entire class ended up doing the "Pledge of Allegiance" as an example of indoctrination.
At 1:20, the next group went and presented propaganda. They also mentioned indoctrination, which, in case you forgot, is to repeat and repeat until what you say becomes the truth. This group presented the "sad grandpa story," (Chris Hsiao) a story about a boy who's grandfather came in at night, turned out the light, and told him about the revolution. What the boy did not realize at the time, but realized when he wrote the story, was that, on that night, his grandfather was arrested and taken to the gulags, and that he had most likely been crying when he told the story.
At 1:44, we talked about "Pravda," (Mariam Parks) which is the main newspaper in Russia at the time of the Revolution and gave basically only propaganda controlled by Stalin. In Russian, "Pravda" means "Truth."

-I