If country lacks its own propaganda, then someone else’s will dominate

This idea has been voiced by a columnist of Belarus Segodnya Publishing House, Andrei Mukovozchik, in his talk with Alfa Radio

The journalist admitted that he had long stopped reacting on being called a propagandist. Mr. Mukovozchik explained, “Propaganda envisages promotion of one's own ideological values, assertion of one's own lifestyle, and illustration of how it is right to live and how it is wrong. Any society and state always has its own propaganda. If there is no propaganda of its own, then someone else’s will immediately occupy this place. This actually was observed during the perestroika times. We then kicked the annoying Soviet propaganda aside, and the western propaganda immediately came instead. It has taken about thirty years to start fighting it seriously.”