American Anticomminist Propaganda

Watching films and comics, and listening to the radio of American Anticommunist, I found that it had great effects of brainwashing people. An announcement of “Civic Defense Policy” made on radio certainly made a sufficient role of making people believe that they were facing serious threats by communist. And, the cartoon “Make Mine Freedom” explained that capitalism could provide people freedom, prosperity and an equal society. However, I realized that they brainwashed people that communism was unjustified and risky through those propagandas, but none of them really explained why communism was a failure in a convincing way. Of course, there was the Cold War going on at the time, so the government needed to brainwash citizens in order to pursue the triumph of capitalism over communism. But, it seems for me that people used different ideologies as reasons to fight, without really analyzing which is better and worse. As matter of a fact, looking at any regime in present countries, we cannot really say that it is capitalism or socialism, because most of countries use both elements in their regimes. Two ideologies have mutually influenced each other, so that they could develop their ideas better. For example, the regime of a capitalistic country has elements of socialism, at the same time the regime of a socialistic country has elements of capitalism. It is important to remember that every regime is mixed of different ideologies which make the regime more productive.