Reply #4: Makes you wonder how many citizens of their country...

[Solon]

actually believes the bullshit, like this quote:

“I have the greatest admiration for your propaganda. Propaganda in the West is carried out by experts who have had the best training in the world — in the field of advertising — and have mastered the techniques with exceptional proficiency... Yours are subtle and persuasive; ours are crude and obvious... I think that the fundamental difference between our worlds, with respect to propaganda, is quite simple. You tend to believe yours... and we tend to disbelieve ours.”

— Soviet correspondent
based five years in the U.S.
quoted on thirdworldtraveler.com