ABSTRACT
The creation of effective opposition in colonial territories became therefore a priority task for the Communist International and later, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and its agitation, subversion, and propaganda agencies. Soviet appeals to ideology in the third world have had limited success. The Soviets apparently decided that the whole hemisphere could safely be incorporated into their plans for revolution. Soviet operating procedures and communist ideology are discrete functions. Soviet propaganda has often used the "either-or" technique, and is nowhere better illustrated than in the 1930's recruitment of British and American agents, fellow travellers, and innocents. Either-or concepts are used by Soviet propaganda to mobilize third world support for their own policies towards the pariah nations and for their proxies in the arenas of conflict. Much Soviet propaganda is tactical, supporting operations rather than ideology, it devotes much effort to deception as opposed to persuasion.
