“To ensure normal functioning and control over all spheres of public life, a totalitarian state creates special tools. The most important place in it, along with the party and its organizations, and repressive bodies, is occupied by the media. Unlike a democratic society, where the means of communication perform, first of all, the functions of information, in a totalitarian state they turn into an apparatus of total propaganda. Propaganda (from the Latin word propaganda - “to be disseminated”) is the dissemination of facts, arguments, rumors and other information, including deliberately false ones, to influence public opinion..."