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Russia is a small country (as population and industry) compared to US and EU. It cant afford to reinvent the way a modern society, government, media, etc. works. The state propaganda machine is a direct copy of what the US and especially the UK governments have built.

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"State propaganda machine" presupposes state control of all media outlets. Which is true for Russia, but is not true in any western country.

If you don't believe me, just google what different TV channels or online magazines said about obama care. Some praised it to the high heavens, others made it out to be the antichrist. If Obama really controlled all "his" media, that should have gone a lot better...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_the_United_States

And where does it say that the US government has complete control over all media? At least in the last few decades? Any public actor will try to shape the narrative about him and his actions. But this is completely different than excluding any contradicting information.

The propaganda "machines" in Nazi-Germany, soviet union, and today in Russia or North Korea differ in one important point from western media reporting: The government's narrative is the only narrative.

I find it funny how you're trying to defend RT and Russia (which is fine), but managed to make the most damning criticism of the whole thread :)

Poor Russia, the first country to put a man in space, now reduced to copying propaganda machines!

I'm not trying to defend anyone. Russia is as evil as the US, it just doesn't have enough hardware to do as much damage.

The man in space flew on a rocket initially designed in Nazi Germany.

Soviet Union !== Russia

Fair enough, though I'm not sure everyone in the Russian upper echelons is completely convinced of that :)

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