#historical propaganda

• ARLUS — Acronym for 'Asociația Română pentru Strângerea Legăturilor cu Uniunea Sovietică' (Romanian Association for Strengthening Relations with the Soviet Union), a political and cultural propaganda organization established in Romania in the autumn of 1944. This structural entity played an aggressive geopolitical role during the Sovietization of the country, with the official mission of promoting Stalinist ideology, the Russian language, and Soviet communist achievements among the masses, before being formally dissolved in 1964.