Well, I agree that there is lots of types of propaganda.

Even selling/ promoting yourself in a good way to get a job, is considered normal, but I'm wouldn't label that as propaganda, tbh.

Imo, the type of Government propaganda I refer to is bad. I see this in the context of WorldWar 2, when it got a really bad name because the Nazis were so good at it. In Europe it still has a very bad reputation.

Also, technically, it been used almost everywhere at some time or in some form.

The difference between countries & Gvements being democratic or not, is how badly, how much, to what end, and how systematic they use it.

In the case of Russian propaganda there's been tons of news articles and YT, about how is was used to sow confusion and division amongst enemy states. You can check online the playbooks that have been leaked.

Ed.