{"id":493,"date":"2022-04-06T08:46:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T08:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forum.sbenny.com\/blog\/politics\/foreign-politics\/navalny-explains-how-putins-cruel-propaganda-works\/"},"modified":"2022-04-06T08:46:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T08:46:21","slug":"navalny-explains-how-putins-cruel-propaganda-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.sbenny.com\/blog\/technology\/navalny-explains-how-putins-cruel-propaganda-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Navalny explains how Putin’s cruel propaganda works"},"content":{"rendered":"


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We publish a thread from the Twitter account of Alexei Navalny, leader of the opposition in the Kremlin sentenced to 12 years in prison. In 14 tweets Navalny describes the dynamics of Russian propaganda, especially as regards television viewers.<\/i><\/p>\n

What does an ordinary Russian TV viewer get (as I am currently)?<\/p>\n

I learned of the monstrous events in Bucha yesterday morning through the news that Russia was convening the UN Security Council in connection with the massacre of Ukrainian Nazis in Bucha.<\/p>\n

In the evening, the host of the First channel explained everything that had happened. And I would not have believed it if I had not seen it with my own eyes and had not heard it with my own ears: \u00abNATO has been preparing provocation in Bucha for some time and at the highest levels. This is also confirmed by the fact that President Biden has called Putin a “butcher (butcher<\/i> in English, ed<\/i>) \u201dNot long ago. Feel how similar the English word is “butcher<\/i>\u201dAnd the name of the city\u201c Bucha \u201d. This is how the Western public has been unconsciously prepared for this provocation \u201d.<\/p>\n

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1\/14 How an ordinary Russian TV viewer (one of whom I currently am) sees it.<\/p>\n

I learned about the monstrous events in Bucha yesterday morning from the news that Russia was convening the UN Security Council in connection with the massacre by Ukrainian Nazis in Bucha.<\/p>\n

– Alexey Navalny (@navalny) April 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is why I tell you that the monstrosity of lies on federal channels is unimaginable. And, unfortunately, so too is its persuasion for those without access to alternative information.<\/p>\n

The point is that Putin’s propaganda has long ceased to be a mere tool. They are real warmongers and have become a party in their own right.<\/p>\n

The hosts of the news screaming endlessly, and their “experts”, are taking their fury to ever higher levels and have long since surpassed the military in terms of aggression.<\/p>\n

They ask for all-out war, the assault on Kiev, the bombing of Lviv. Not even the prospect of nuclear war scares them. They silence any unconventional voices with their Putinist colleagues on live television, if they only hint that peace talks are a good thing.<\/p>\n

He is such a disgusting ouroboros. Russian politics is like a propaganda snake chasing its own tail: propagandists create the kind of public opinion that not only allows Putin to commit war crimes, but asks for them, demands them.<\/p>\n

Warmongers should be treated like war criminals. From editor-in-chiefs to talk show hosts to news editors, all of this Thousand Hills Radio should be sanctioned now and taken to court someday.<\/p>\n

I would also like to remind you that the National Media Group, which pulls the strings of this lying machine, undoubtedly belongs to Putin, and is even formally led by Putin’s lover, Alina Kabaeva (see our \u201cPalace for Putin\u201d survey).<\/p>\n

More drastic measures should be taken to make the work of these Goebbels heirs more difficult. From an absolute ban on supplies and goods, to the search for their properties in the West (which undoubtedly exist), to their inclusion in the visa blacklists.<\/p>\n

The monstrous atrocities in Bucha, Irpin and other Ukrainian cities were committed not only by those who tied the hands of peaceful people behind their backs, not just by those who shot them in the back of the head. But also from those who stood by and whispered: “Come on, shoot, give us some good material for our TV show of the night.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n