posted on Apr, 3 2023 @ 12:41 PM
During the final spurt of the Cold War, the conflict in Angola was the 'playing field' for a surge in propaganda warfare.
Most of it was the kind of propaganda that simply took the horrific events and created a narrative to vilify the opposition. But some of it was a
more bold application of direct fabrication of outright lies...
... and it bears mentioning that the first signs of the international press core having adopted a 'prostitution' state, propagating and profiteering
by simply embracing the sources' efforts to just "report whatever they were paid to say."
(Sort of like today, where they are handed material and then reporters pretend they 'investigated it' - calling it "journalism" or better yet
"advocacy journalism.")
There was one tale of a group of Cuban and Angolan (MPLA) troops who would attack villagers and then distribute young and older girls for sexual
assault... The atrocity was characterized as the barbarism one could expect from the "Commie bad guys" but this time, through circumstance, those
soldiers were eventually captured and the village women lined them up and vengefully executed them all ... an ironic 'feel good' ending.
Only, it never happened. At all. Not even the villagers could understand where that story came from... turns out, it came from Western
Press... who defended themselves by saying "we never actually said it happened." But that, of course, is history, and it could never happen again,
right?