Life: The Prisoners of Pavlov (5 out. 1953)

(...) But the Reds do not merely regard prisoners as expendable; they regard them as potential weapons for their side. Thousands of U.N. troops were processed for use in Red propaganda. For this the Communists have a systematic technique based on the experiments of the Russian Physiologist Pavlov, who fed dogs to the ringing of a bell and conditioned them to drool with bogus eating pleasure every time the bell was rung. Communist psychiatry - and political theory - considers that all men are dogs, and that their reflexes can be conditioned accordingly (...)



Life, Editorial 5 out 1953