p After the Second World War propaganda became an inalienable component of imperialist foreign policy and one of the weapons in the cold war. This propaganda receives annual allocations amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, is served by an army of tens of thousands of experts, and is given unremitting attention by the leaders of the Western powers.

p Naturally, the captaincy of imperialism’s ideological struggle on the international scene was taken over by the USA. However, the propaganda efforts of Britain, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Japan and other countries were also stepped up considerably. Today this propaganda is directed towards all peoples, towards the entire world.

Foreign political propaganda’s conversion into one of the major instruments of imperialist policy spurred the development of the bourgeois theory of propaganda, of its methods, techniques and organisation. The study of all these aspects of the activity of the imperialist bourgeoisie is becoming an essential part of the research into modern international relations, foreign policy and diplomacy.