The episode has been described as "a blatant pro-Soviet propaganda posing as factual analysis."
But overt political content and blatant propaganda, still offered up by some theater directors, are for the most part just as actively discouraged by most officials.
How can you criticize the 'propaganda' of the western artists when this entire show is blatant propaganda of a different sort?
The incident captured something of the spirit of Chinese cinema in the 1990's: blatant propaganda on the screens and cynicism and yawns in the audiences.
Only a stupid person would regurgitate blatant propaganda without bothering to check the real facts.
Do they have so little wit that they cannot at least attack the blatant propaganda peddled by the Tories in presenting increased contributions by low-paid workers as an "extremely reasonable deal".
The result is that one person's perceptive documentary may be another person's blatant propaganda.
I think the Norwegian version basically only used the stuff that was not blatant propaganda, and redubbed the hell out of the rest.
Concerning Euronews, this is blatant propaganda and the media should stay independent.
Such blatant propaganda must have sounded as far-fetched to the Wehrmacht as to their British and American opponents in North Africa and Europe.