Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.” ~ Leonard Schapiro (1908-1983) British academic, London School of Economics, Professor of Political Science with Special Reference to Russian StudiesSource: The Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 2nd ed (New York Random House, 1971), 477.