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Chapter 902 The Power of Propaganda (Second update, please subscribe)
This is the original AK47!
Looking at the familiar weapons in the photo, Li Yian felt somewhat emotional.

This is definitely the most popular weapon in history. There are countless myths about it in another world. It has a simple structure, easy operation, and is sturdy and durable. In short, according to many people, it is a perfect weapon.

It is the most produced firearm in the world. It exists basically wherever there are humans, especially in the third world. AK and RPG are basically standard equipment for the army or rebels.

There are so many myths about it that people are too lazy to question it.

However, at this moment, looking at the AK47 seized from Bangkok in front of him, what did Li Yian think?
It's expansion!
It's help!
In the next few decades, the Eastern Bloc represented by the Soviet Union exported millions of AK47s to all parts of the world in a nearly free manner, from the rainforests of Vietnam to the deserts of the Middle East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the grasslands of Africa, and from the grasslands of Africa to the jungles of South America!
In short, under the trend of internationalism and the working class's knowledge of no national boundaries, the AK47 spread throughout the world and became a symbol of independence.

The United States suffered a bitter defeat in Vietnam under the gunpoint of AK, and the old powers of Britain and France left Africa in disgrace under the gunpoint of AK.

This is AK!

The reason why it spread all over the world is not because it is so popular, but because it was really free for a long time, at least a considerable part of it was free.

"This isn't a gun, it's the end of colonialism!"

Feeling its greatness and myth, Li Yian felt fear in his heart.

The butt determines the head, this has always been true. As a big capitalist and conservative, he is of course afraid of it and scared of it.

Even subconsciously reject it!
This is human nature!
Putting the photo aside, Li Yian flipped through the military's summary report on the Siam Operation. He was not very interested in air combat, land combat, air strikes and so on. He even just glanced at the report on the Air Force's research on the captured MiG-15.

The MiG-15 is outdated, and now the Soviets should use the MiG-17. Soon they will launch the supersonic MiG-19, and then the famous MiG-21. When the time comes, Nanyang will definitely launch corresponding fighters to deal with the threat. After all, the Aviation Industry Corporation has already started researching new fighters.

But what is the real threat?
Once again, taking out the photo of AK47, Li Yian frowned.

Expansion, infiltration, internal subversion... this is the most real and cruel side of the future Cold War. Why during the Cold War, the European and American Western world was improving the welfare of the people, and the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries were also improving the welfare of the people, and even borrowed money from the West and imported various commodities such as food, meat, coffee, and sugar to meet the needs of the people.

To put it bluntly, it's all for the purpose of buying people off - whether it's Western European and American countries or the Soviet bloc, they are all buying the hearts of the people, but the degree of buying off is different. The reason they do this is not because of how high their awareness is, but because they are worried about internal subversion!
Exporting something like this is mutual, never one-way. That is why they improve people's livelihood and buy off the people.

"internal!"

Li Yian said.

"The key is to prevent this from happening from within. In addition to improving and enhancing people's livelihood, there should also be... a sense of pride!"

Sense of pride!
"As long as there is national pride, no one can disrupt the development of Nanyang from within!"

"So what methods should be used to increase the pride of the Nanyang people?"

Li Yian lit up a big cigar and thought silently.

In fact, the answer is ready-made - and Nanyang has been doing it. It is through propaganda. As a country deeply influenced by Sandezi, as early as the early days of Nanyang's founding, it used various means to control media organizations from an ideological perspective, so that they selectively released appropriate news to the public, thereby influencing the people. This is that following Sandezi's experience, during World War II, the German propaganda department's control over the above three reached its peak.

"The cohesion brought by the support of the prosperity or revival of any nation and the spiritual strength of the nation is unimaginable."

In the study, Li Yian looked at Sun Jingye who was sitting in front of him and said,
"So, in addition to guiding public opinion, we should also make some movies, some movies that can awaken the national pride!"

"A movie that awakens national pride?"

As the director of the official residence's public opinion and news committee, Sun Jingye is naturally an expert in propaganda. After all, there are many German colleagues in the office who are very experienced in this area, he said.

“Your Excellency, do you mean to make some promotional films? We have achieved some results in this regard. In the past eight years, we have let the outside world know about Nanyang, its construction, and life in Nanyang through movies. Moreover, our movies are very popular in East Asia and Southeast Asia. They have even entered the European and American markets, and the response has been very good!” This is not self-praise. After years of development, Nanyang's film industry has not only been very active, but has also produced many excellent works. Many films have entered the European and American markets and have achieved very considerable market shares.

"I understand that the film industry has made great achievements, but..."

Li Yian said after taking a puff of his cigar.

"In the past, our publicity focus was on establishing the image of Nanyang in the world in order to attract people from all over the world to come to Nanyang. Overall, our film presents a modern and open Nanyang, which is undoubtedly very good. However, we must also consider another point, which is how to enhance the cohesion of Nanyang people. This requires cultivating the pride of the people as Nanyang people!"

Li Yian said when talking about the sense of pride.

"In the past, we increased people's sense of pride through construction, life and other things that were closely related to people's lives. When people mentioned Nanyang, they were talking about the wonderful life of Nanyang people. This was their pride, but this was only one aspect!"

Li Yian paused to take a puff of his cigar, then continued.

"But we still have a lot of other material available, such as the defense of Bastogne, the sinking of the Yamato, the bombing of Tokyo, including the Siamese crisis, all of which can be filmed. Of course, there are also our satellites and our rockets! They are all very good materials."

"A war movie!"

Sun Jingye said urgently.

“War movies are very expensive!”

“War movies are indeed expensive, but they can boost pride even faster!”

When mentioning this, Li Yian naturally thought of another world. Russia provides funding to film companies, prompting them to shoot main-theme movies that promote patriotism every year. Those movies are either related to the Great Patriotic War or to space exploration. Although there are only one or two movies each year, they do promote patriotism to some extent.

Nanyang, you can do the same!
Thinking of this, Li Yian said.

"We can set up a foundation to provide funding to film companies, and we can also ask the military to provide corresponding assistance."

In fact, in another world, the cooperation between the US military and the film industry is very worthy of emulation. Talking about the cooperation between the military and the film industry, Li Yian emphasized.

"Of course, our funding is just funding. Don't interfere too much with them. After all, movies have to make money. If they can't make a profit from these movies, even with our funding, they will just make some bad movies in the end. Without an audience, what's the point of promoting them? Should we organize government officials and students to watch movies and have the government pay for it? In this way, it will form a vicious cycle - the movies get worse and worse, and the worse they get, the fewer people will watch them. In the end, it will just become a formality..."

Although Li Yian did not activate the movie skill, he has watched many movies and naturally knows what kind of patriotism education is most effective.

"Yes, what we need is a subtle inculcation of patriotism, not just preaching..."

For Li Yian, who has watched many patriotic movies and Hollywood blockbusters, he knows how to instill patriotism and how to enhance national pride. This kind of indoctrination is definitely not preaching or instruction.

Li Yian had been chatting with Sun Jingye about movies, and at the end, he said something special.

“We can ask the cultural communication company to communicate more with the film company in Kuching. If necessary, we can ask the screenwriters to work together to create some stories. Isn’t Kuching the “Hollywood of Asia”? They are definitely more professional in doing these things.”

When talking about Asia's "Asian Hollywood", Li Yian's mind can't help but emerge with the famous movie stars in Southeast Asia in recent years. There are quite a lot of handsome men and beautiful women, especially the latter, who, like Hollywood, are gathered with beauties from all over Europe and Asia.

Thinking of this, Li Yian even felt a little regretful in his heart. He regretted why he didn't set up the film center in Chang'an, but in Kuching...

(End of this chapter)