Wiktionary:Word of the day/2020/December 26

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Word of the day
for December 26
agitprop n
  1. (uncountable, also attributively) Political propaganda disseminated through art, drama, literature, etc., especially communist propaganda; (specifically, communism, historical) such propaganda formerly disseminated by the Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  2. (countable) An instance of such propaganda.
  3. (countable) An organization or person engaged in disseminating such propaganda.

agitprop v

  1. (transitive, intransitive, politics) To disseminate (something as) political propaganda, especially communist propaganda, through art, drama, literature, etc.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), or Soviet Union, was officially proclaimed to have been dissolved with effect from this date in 1991.

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