Ministry of propaganda

A ministry of propaganda (also agency, bureau or department of propaganda) is the part of a government charged with generating and distributing propaganda.

Though governments routinely engage in propaganda,

• The
  World War
  .
• The
  Second World War
  .
• Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
  .
• The Soviet Union had a Department for Agitation and Propaganda.
• The Republican faction in the Spanish Civil War had Ministry of Propaganda during period from November 1936 to May 1937.^[2]
• The Brazilian Estado Novo had a Department of Press and Propaganda (DIP).
• The Irish Republic had a Department of Propaganda, established 1918 and renamed to Department of Publicity in 1921.
• The Chinese Central Propaganda Department officially changed its English name to
  Central Publicity Department
  in 1998, while its Chinese name 宣传部 was unchanged.
• Poland's ministry of information and propaganda was established in 1944.^[3]
• Muldergate Scandal
  .
• Fascist Italy's analogue was the Ministry of Popular Culture, created in 1933.
• The
  Ministry of Popular Power for Communication and Information in Venezuela
  is often called a propaganda ministry
• Propaganda and Agitation Department in North Korea
• Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)^[5] formed in 1947 in Pakistan – media wing of the Pakistani Armed Forces which broadcasts and coordinates military news and information to the country's civilian media and the civic society.
• The Francoist Spain had a Department of Propaganda from 1936 to 1947.

In literature

• The
  Ministry of Truth is the ministry of propaganda in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  .

• Crowd psychology
• Ministry of Information
• Central Propaganda Department

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