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Comm Sci unit 1 (APPROACH 2- A DIFFERENT APPROACH Globalisation &…

- - - - People expected authentic news to arrive by conversational rumour, and honest opinion by Samizdat
        
        Samzidat= self-published
        
        A dual-level public realm developed: official truths that the media blared out & unofficial realm that was the stuff of everyday private conversation, or samizdat.
        
        Gorbachev 1985 - introduced new degree of frankness and directness in media (famous Glasnost policy)
    - - Health, housing, education prospects of children, women and aged, peasant farmers, and slum dwellers were sacrificed to the dictates of debt repayment of international banks
      - * KLEPTOCRACIES (thief regimes) spend a good chunk of loans on themselves and another chunk on buying weapons in create wars with their neighbours in order to divert attention from their own abuses.
      - Russian media, until last few years of old Soviet union, were silent about this decline in living standards and stagnation in productivity- and asserted that the capitalist countries were suffering from acute and irremediable economic problems.
        
        Interesting- US media at the turn of the millennium also suggested universal prosperity as well, but the facts suggested a slow-burning invisible crisis.