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I find it hard to engage with these people without using ableist terms, I've settled on "purposefully obtuse" because it's clear and neutral enough I believe. Thanks for reading anyway

You can disengage now. You may or may not reflect on to which degree you're actually thinking by yourself or just vomiting mass-media by the fact that I pinpointed your country of origin based on two comments on Lemmy, I won't keep listening to you because I could just as easily listen to the same bullshit by turning on any state Estonian TV station. Have a good and russophobic day

Disengage.

"Russophobic"? We're not afraid of them

"Islamophobic"? We're not afraid of them

Literally MAGA discourse. I can smell Baltic right wing nationalists from a mile away.

so the audience does not come to a rational conclusion but a fabricated one

That's not how propaganda works, propaganda explicitly can be true information as explained to you before using the Wikipedia article. I literally quoted it to you, it can be factual information.

Mentioning atrocities in every single paragraph is the biggest case of atrocity propaganda, and if you are purposefully obtuse enough not to see it, just drop this conversation.

I updated my prior comment with a poll in Romania.

The fact that you talk of "Russian occupation" tells me you're likely from the Baltics, where this conspiracy theory is most promoted. Smaller nations are influenced by geopoltical blocks, that's just how reality works, I don't see you talking about current "German occupation" due to belonging to the EU, or "US occupation" due to belonging to NATO. People in the Baltics are extremely russophobic, this is where this conspiracy theory stems from.

russian occupation

As I said, Balts or Poles don't count. Your far-right nationalist great replacement conspiracy theories aren't factual. You're indistinguishable from MAGA crying about being run over by Mexicans, French far right crying about being run over by black people, or Spaniards crying about being run over by Moroccans.

Example poll on a less racist territory like Romania:

66.2% of respondents believe Ceaușescu was a good leader for Romania

When asked whether life was better under communism than today, nearly half of respondents (48.4%) said yes, compared to 34.7% who said it was worse. Meanwhile, 65.1% believe there was less corruption under communism than there is now, and 75.1% think public safety was better before 1989.

Some 85.1% believe food was healthier under communism, and 66.4% think the state took better care of its citizens. The efficiency of state institutions is another area where the past is favored: 58.7% say they functioned better before 1989

Education and healthcare are also perceived to have been more accessible during communism. Nearly half of respondents (49.9%) say quality education was easier to obtain, and 48.6% believe healthcare services were more accessible. On economic output, 68.5% say Romania produced more goods and services before 1989 than it does today.

In cultural terms, the communist period is seen in a surprisingly positive light. About 75% of respondents say Romanian films were better under communism, 58% prefer the entertainment shows from that era, and over 71% believe the music was of higher quality. A strong 71.3% believe Romania has lost its cultural identity in recent decades.

Yet awareness of the regime's darker chapters is widespread. More than 94% acknowledge that basic foodstuffs were rationed, 92.1% have heard about travel restrictions, and over 95% know that television was available for only a few hours a day.

Some 82% are aware that hundreds of thousands of Romanians were tortured or killed in communist prisons, though only 59.2% explicitly say the regime was responsible for those crimes. Just 14.3% believe those responsible were held accountable in court.

So, despite its shortcomings, people say life was better. Who woulda thunk

Reporting ICE crimes is also atrocity propaganda. Propaganda doesn't mean it's bad, it just means you're swaying public opinion. I believe that spreading anti-ICE propaganda is good because ICE are a bunch of fascist pigs, I believe that propagating anti-Iran propaganda in the context of the military buildup against Iran is bad because it serves to justify the casus belli and the upcoming military invasion.

From the text in the post, I've added emphasis:

‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

As details of the death toll for January’s protests continue to emerge, three students explain why they are resisting a return to normality

More than 45 days after a brutal January crackdown that left thousands of Iranian protesters dead, students across several universities are protesting again. As Iran’s new academic term began on Saturday, students in Tehran gathered on campus, chanting anti-government slogans, despite a heavy security presence and plainclothes officers stationed outside university gates.

The Guardian spoke to protesting students about why they were rallying despite the fact that thousands had been killed and tens of thousands arrested in the January demonstrations.

“Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full,” said Hossein*, 21, a student at the University of Tehran. “It’s for them – our friends, classmates and compatriots, who were gunned down in front of our eyes, that we decided to boycott the classes.”

There is literally not one paragraph in the post text without atrocity propaganda, some paragraphs with several cases. Are you being purposefully obtuse?

They are spreading details about the crimes committed by the enemy, whether factual or not, and this can serve to justify a casus belli. It's literally the definition of atrocity propaganda.

Iran has been under extreme sanctions for 45 years. Trump has intensified them prior to military invasion, yes, but the entire US government apparatus is complicit in the murder of hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians through economic deprivation.