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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Buncombe

How Putin’s disinformation mirrors classic Soviet propaganda from the Cold War

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For much of his life, Milton Leitenberg has been studying, with a rare devotion, the propaganda tactics of the Soviet Union.

From “Operation Infektion”, launched in the 1980s to allege the US had invented HIV and Aids, to allegations made by Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union in the early 1950s that Washington was using biological weapons in the Korean war, Leitenberg has documented the falsehoods in more than 40 books, journal articles and pamphlets.

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