Something that makes the Russian propaganda machine so effective is that they have the multiple departments at Russian universities at their disposal to produce

Something that makes the Russian propaganda machine so effective is that they have the multiple departments at Russian universities at their disposal to produce both international and domestic propaganda. The West is up against Russian propaganda refined by psychiatrists, psychologists, anthropologists etc. In the West the academias are contrarian. We are not used to adversaries that can put every single intelligent educated person in their country to work to undermine our countries.