Putin’s Propaganda Problem

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a meeting of the Council of Legislators at the Federal Assembly in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on April 27, 2022. Sputnik/Alexei Danichev/Kremlin via Reuters

Commentary

It might seem that Vladimir Putin doesn’t have a propaganda problem, at least at home. George Orwell presented a vision of the totalitarian future—based on what Stalin’s Russia was already like—in his 1949 dystopian novel “1984.” It’s a world where opposition can’t even be thought.