Propaganda 政治宣传
（重定向自Gray propaganda）
![French propaganda painting Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1805), a romantic depiction by Jacques-Louis David during the Napoleonic Wars.](/Images/godic/202501/16/David_-_Napoleon_crossing_the_Alps_-_Malmaison12522.jpg")
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![Painting from 1918 during the Russian Civil War period, depicting Red Army leader Leon Trotsky as a modern-day Saint George of communism slaying the dragon of capitalism with a top hat and the word](/Images/godic/202501/16/Trotsky-Saint_George_allusion2522.png")
![1935 poster of Manchukuo promoting harmony between Japanese, Chinese, and Manchu. The caption, written from right to left, says:](/Images/godic/202501/16/Manchukuo0112522.jpg")
Propaganda is a form of biased communication, aimed at promoting or demoting certain views, pe****tions or agendas. Propaganda is often associated with the psychological mechanisms of influencing and altering the attitude of a population toward a specific cause, position or political agenda in an effort to form a consensus to a standard set of belief patterns.