• The
United Kingdom had the
Ministry of Information during each
World War. • The
United States had the
Committee on Public Information for the
First World War and the
United States Office of War Information for the
Second World War. •
Nazi Germany had employed
Joseph Goebbels as head of the
Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. • The
Soviet Union had a
Department for Agitation and Propaganda. • The
Republican faction in the
Spanish Civil War had Ministry of Propaganda during period from November 1936 to May 1937. • The Brazilian
Estado Novo had a Department of Press and Propaganda (DIP). • The
Irish Republic had a Department of Propaganda, established 1918 and renamed to
Department of Publicity in 1921. • The Chinese Central Propaganda Department officially changed its English name to
Central Publicity Department in 1998, while its Chinese name (
Pinyin: ) was unchanged. •
Poland's ministry of information and propaganda was established in 1944. •
South Africa's President
Jacob Zuma announced on 25 May 2014 a new
Department of Communications responsible for all government communications and propaganda, echoing the role of the Department of Information under the
apartheid government in the 1970s, whose diversion of government funds into propaganda was exposed in the
Muldergate scandal. •
Fascist Italy's analogue was the
Ministry of Popular Culture, created in 1933. • The
Ministry of Popular Power for Communication and Information in
Venezuela is often called a propaganda ministry. • The
Propaganda and Agitation Department of
North Korea is officially translated "Publicity and Information Department". •
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) formed in 1947 in
Pakistan – media wing of the Pakistani Armed Forces which broadcasts and coordinates military news and information to the country's civilian media and the civic society. • During the
Spanish Civil War, both sides of the conflict had a Department of Propaganda. Also, during the
dictatorship of Francisco Franco, the
Ministry of Information and Tourism acted as such. ==In literature==