If you want to learn about propaganda and indoctrination then look no further than Edward Bernays and other PR pioneers. People like him came up with a blueprin

If you want to learn about propaganda and indoctrination then look no further than Edward Bernays and other PR pioneers. People like him came up with a blueprint to manage liberal democracies because nominal freedom requires (according to him) the management of thought in order to make people make the right choices (we are all free to pick between Pepsi and Coke). Propaganda and indoctrination makes less sense in a totalitarian society. It’s in the name: a totalitarian society needs no consent or illusion of choice because the choices have been made for you. The same applies to merely authoritarian societies to a lesser degree. Putin had his whole narrative of the Russian Empire becoming a thing again. So that was definitely meant to motivate the average Russian. But on the other hand it is not crucial that Russians buy it; Russians were directly told that people who protest the invasion will get arrested. There is too much fascination with the Orwellian “thought crime” type of propaganda and indoctrination. Try to have a more pscyhoanalytical approach to it. Like Bernays.