Propaganda and PR tricks

On September 15, the first day of school in Bulgaria, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev, who leads the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), made a speech that was read aloud in all the schools in the country. The daily Dnevnik comments: "Having the speech read aloud in all schools had an ideological function. It sends the message: 'We are in power!' ... Naturally the speech is about history. But in projecting the precedence of 'national unity' onto the present it conceals the wish to maintain the status quo. Hiding under the cloak of 'national unity' is a propaganda strategy that does not fit in with a left-wing party, but who says the BSP is a left-wing party? It is the typical party of company assets ... of the socialist nomenclatura, the former Stasi agents and the Mafiosi. Perhaps it is not such a bad thing for schoolchildren to hear such speeches on the first day of school - this way first-year pupils learn that in addition to the world of knowledge there is also the world of propaganda and cheap PR tricks."

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