News is the USSR

[Stain]

I am reading "Welcome to the Desert of the Real" by Zizek and read that there were no crimes reported in the newpapers in the USSR. Nothing about social problems such as prositution. No reports of any dissent from workers. Is this true? Were there can council/local newspaper or was everything central?

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

I am reading "Welcome to the Desert of the Real" by Zizek and read that there were no crimes reported in the newpapers in the USSR. Nothing about social problems such as prositution. No reports of any dissent from workers. Is this true? Were there can council/local newspaper or was everything central?

Reporting on petty crimes or prostitution really only serves to instill fear into honest working people, and has always been used as a tool by the Bourgeoisie to rule workers. If crimes happen, that's that. Just a sign human society hasn't evolved yet to a higher stage. Not much to report about.

[Brutus]

No reports of any dissent from workers
When you claim to be a socialist state, but you are a dictatorship, it wouldn't be wise to.

[Flying Purple People Eater]

Reporting on petty crimes or prostitution really only serves to instill fear into honest working people, and has always been used as a tool by the Bourgeoisie to rule workers. If crimes happen, that's that. Just a sign human society hasn't evolved yet to a higher stage. Not much to report about.

This is the worst excuse for whitewashed newspapers I've ever seen.

So what? People shouldn't have news of problems in their area? When is something too 'petty' to be added to the papers? Who decides this?

The soviet newspapers weren't the way they were because they wanted to do away with 'bourgeois news' or whatever - quite the opposite. Most newspapers (i.e. Pravda) were much like American news-stations such as Fox in that they were pushing a political agenda, and the history of Soviet newspapers selectively choosing positive articles is quite well documented.

[Anti-Traditional]

Reporting on petty crimes or prostitution really only serves to instill fear into honest working people, and has always been used as a tool by the Bourgeoisie to rule workers. If crimes happen, that's that. Just a sign human society hasn't evolved yet to a higher stage. Not much to report about.

Well of course it instils fear into 'honest working people', crime is a scary thing! But were not innocent children, I'm sure we could handle the truth.

[Rurkel]

I am reading "Welcome to the Desert of the Real" by Zizek and read that there were no crimes reported in the newpapers in the USSR. Eh, there definitely were reports on hooliganism, violence and financial swindlers/thieves (sometimes explicitly portrayed as the 'last throes of the bourgeios mentality manifesting themselves in these anti-social elements' or such). Prostitution, of course, was a different issue - it was too shameful for the supposedly socialist society, not to mention Soviet semi-official prudishness.

Soviet crime stories usually portrayed the whole people united against the despicable criminals, enthusiastically cooperating with the militia/police.

[Arlekino]

I am reading "Welcome to the Desert of the Real" by Zizek and read that there were no crimes reported in the newpapers in the USSR. Nothing about social problems such as prositution. No reports of any dissent from workers. Is this true? Were there can council/local newspaper or was everything central?


There was reports about crime but not extreme. Even it was TV programs about crime. I remember them.