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Comment by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF

> a shameless willingness to disseminate partial truths or outright fictions

I remember an informative presentation about Russian history and culture which seems to go along with this, in particular the bit about "two words for the truth and three for the lie".

https://youtu.be/kF9KretXqJw?t=2257 (time-stamped at the relevant portion but the whole talk is good)

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