N. LYGEROS PhD

Always the same idea in the core of the Soviet system...

Good propaganda had to instill hope. This hope was the new society...

In the propaganda of the Soviet Union the idea of the  newman was crucial. In this system, everything had to be new...

At the beginning, the Kremlin said that the invasion in Ukraine was only a special military operation and that it was a duty to liberate the poor Ukrainians from the government of Kyiv...

After so many errors and failures the Soviet spirit changed because it saw that its believers started to lose their religion. With all the atrocities and even the genocides, it was impossible to continue with the same way...

When we are fighting against totalitarian regimes it's important to have access to historical archives. Because of the supremacy of propaganda in space, time became the place of the resistance...

As Heaven was impossible for Soviets, they had to create artificial heaven to convince their believers. It was the place of forced happiness. And it was the same for all the workers. That’s why forced work was...

The first invasion of Cyprus can be considered as the execution...

1964: Change of phase. Turkey became a priority of the Soviet Union. The Soviets started talking about the rights of the two national communities. Gromyko said even more...

After the independence the interests of Soviets in Cypriot affairs became strategic...

We have to protect and help peoples to maintain their free institutions...

Before the declassification of Soviet – era documents it was impossible to prove in an objective way...

The Greek Democratic Army was completely controlled by the Greek Communist Party and it was assisted  by the new communist regimes of Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia always, under the control of Big Brother i.e. the Soviet Union...

Europe was always the target of the Soviet expansion The US knew this dogma...

Yalta was a defeat for some countries that were convinced to belong to the Eastern Bloc. But Yalta rejected them officially. The communists of those countries had felt that it was possible to get one victory...

From the start due to the low level of the strategy which was fragile, the Soviet Union had to use propaganda. For its system deception was natural. When it’s impossible to change the reality, it’s possible to change its interpretation in the brain of the victims. The paradox is that the first victims belong to the system. They were of course...

Chinese forces are playing go game with Taiwan. They have essentially encircled Taiwan with their military exercises. It’s a demonstration of their power in a rather direct way...

In the desert, ideology is useless...

At the start of the invasion in Ukraine, China accepted even its timing...

Freedom is forbidden in red States. But Democracy is simply unknown...

For the Soviet spirit the soul is forbidden. That’s why even now, for Russia...

Human essence is precious because it’s not a human creation...

For Russia it’s impossible to say the truth and especially for its own casualties. This is a tradition from the Soviet Union...

It's strange that for the moment only four countries are labeled....

Against the means of propaganda, we have to be cold warriors even after the end and the fall of the Soviet Union. Because the Soviet dreams are still here. They always use the same techniques i.e. victimization...

It’s difficult to realize how the mechanism of partisan bias works but it’s important to study it if we want to understand the past of the Cold war but also its future. Because the moves of Russia or China...

Usually we use the expression cyclic form as an attempt of musical composition in which a theme occurs in more than one movement as a unifying device. But it is of course possible to study it in politics...