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A lot of people don't know this, but "propaganda" was a positive term in communist countries. But it meant something different from what people usually think of when they think of propaganda (simplified emotional messages directed at the public, like "propaganda posters"). The word for that was agitation. Propaganda was more theoretical stuff aimed at party members (delivered through lectures or books). And they combined the term into the Orwellian-sounding term agitprop which comes from the fact that it was the same department that handled it: Department of Agitation and Propaganda.

>Visual Means of Agitation & Propaganda
(book from 1962)