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The plan is to use this material for:

Create ~~two~~ one short articles: Heaven of Transnistria ~~and Transnistrian propaganda~~, and list the instances where this expression is used in popular culture
~~Re-group factual material, and move it to the appropriate articles where it fits most~~ done
~~I am currently rethinking this material.~~ rethought whatever was there to rethink. 10-points Q: is this actually informative?
Ok, this is what I have reduced it to. Now I need oppinions and edits by other editors. Is this worth an article? :Dc76 17:15, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

1 Heaven of Transnistria
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2 Oppinions about this material

[edit] Heaven of Transnistria

Heaven of Transnistria is a popular culture expession in reference to the propaganda attempts of the Transnistrian regime to challenge popular notions of Transnistria from a dreary, corrupt region, run by a repressive regime funded by arms and people trafficking, and protray it as a Heaven, a Paradise where people live happy ever after. According to the critics of PMR regime, this campain is expressed through:

propaganda and misinformation of the local population through
- portraying the regime as a victim
- falsifying election results
- des-information about outside events
- inventing non-existing international organizations which would endorse the regime
propaganda and misinformation destined for the outside world trhough
- creating the impression of a forward-thinking young democracy
- creating the impression of statehood and legality
- creating the impression of controversy and point of view with respect to human rights critics

and is characterized by:

promoting and spreading a positive view of the separatist government of Transnistria
seldom or never criticize the autorities. In the instances they do the criticism of inessential details, or of details clearly outside the conrol of the autorities, is used rather as a mask to promote a positive view.
the tone or the report is strikingly similar to the Soviet-era propaganda wooden language.

In search for information the public uses its senses to perceive information to form a cognitive representation. By giving wrong impression the public forms wrong perception and wrong representation.

According to journalist Edward Lucas from Radio Free Europe, behind the Heaven of Transnistria is: "I think that the extreme conspiracy theory that the entire thing is run from Tiraspol is quite hard to sustain. I think it's much more likely that it's a mixture of some money from Tiraspol, which might either be government money, money from Mr. [Vladimir] Antyufeyev's State Security Committee, or possibly from one of the wealthy trading companies there," ^[1]