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Charles XII of Sweden. Today, the backward countries can learn
from us how to beat us. In the new electric age of information,
the backward countries enjoy some specific advantages over
the highly literate and industrialized cultures. For backward
countries have the habit and understanding of oral propaganda
and persuasion that was eroded in industrial societies long ago.
The Russians had only to adapt their traditions of Eastern icon
and image-building to the new electric media in order to be
aggressively effective in the modern world of information. The
idea of the Image, that Madison Avenue has had to learn the
hard way, was the only idea available to Russian propaganda.
The Russians have not shown imagination or resourcefulness in
their propaganda. They have merely done that which their
religious and cultural traditions taught them; namely, to build
images.