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My life as a pro-Putin propagandist in Russia’s secret 'troll factory'
Telegraph ^ | 7 Jun 15 | Tom Parfitt

Posted on 06/07/2015 1:06:46 AM PDT by elhombrelibre

When Lyudmila Savchuk heard about the assassination of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov earlier this year she was shocked and saddened.

“I felt the bullets between my own shoulders,” she said, recalling how the Kremlin critic was gunned down near Moscow's Red Square in February.

Yet within hours of Mr Nemtsov's death, Ms Savchuk and her colleagues were going online to pour bile on the former deputy prime minister and claim he was killed by his own friends rather than by government hitmen, as many suspect.

“I was so upset that I almost gave myself away,” she said. “But I was 007. I fulfilled my task.”

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: agitprop; crimea; donetsk; professionaltroll; propaganda; putin; putinsbuttboys; russia; ukraine; vladtheimploder
It's tough for the true putinista platoon because they're in love with Putin, president for life, for ideological reason and his tendency to take off his shirt. But in the meanwhile, Russian cynics are getting paid to spread the same claptrap. So there must be some cognitive dissonance among Putin's fans.
1 posted on 06/07/2015 1:06:46 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
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To: elhombrelibre

I wonder what their DU screen names were.

... I wonder what their FR screen names were, come to think of it.


2 posted on 06/07/2015 2:01:40 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: The KG9 Kid

You guys are the smartest Ukies on FR.


3 posted on 06/07/2015 2:59:12 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: The KG9 Kid

I’d say you found one.


4 posted on 06/07/2015 3:24:17 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: elhombrelibre
What ever happened to PRT?
5 posted on 06/07/2015 3:37:44 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Rodamala; elhombrelibre

You guys are the smartest Ukies on FR.


So tell me FRiend, how do you feel about Russia breaking the ICBM treaty while threatening nuclear war?


6 posted on 06/07/2015 4:19:18 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: cynwoody

I always assumed PRT was a retread account. It appeared right after Wetphoenix got the ban hammer.


7 posted on 06/07/2015 4:25:48 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: cynwoody

>> What ever happened to PRT?

Banned or suspended. Bummer! I kind of liked the ol’ troll. His screen name cracked me up every time I saw it.


8 posted on 06/07/2015 4:36:03 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: elhombrelibre
So there must be some cognitive dissonance among Putin's fans.

I often wonder if there's any cognitive dissonance among Reince's troops who post on FR.

9 posted on 06/07/2015 4:42:40 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: elhombrelibre

I wonder when someone from the American media will break out and talk about being a pro-fascist troll in the Obama Cult.


10 posted on 06/07/2015 5:05:43 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Nervous Tick

Banned or suspended. Bummer! I kind of liked the ol’ troll. His screen name cracked me up every time I saw it.


I don’t know if PRT was paid but he did closely parroted the Kremlin talking points of the day. I recall one thread he posted that was roughly “Don’t support Lithuania because dontcha know their President is a commie”. At the time Russian state media had gone to great effort to plant this story and was aggressively pushing exactly the same idea.

That is the same tactic they use with Ukraine in the west. These trolls disparage front line countries so the pea brained sheep in love with Putin’s bare chested manliness will think it is not worth engaging against Russian invasion & mass murder there.


11 posted on 06/07/2015 5:14:39 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: McGruff; Paid_Russian_Troll

I know two FRussians who fit that bill.


12 posted on 06/07/2015 6:52:42 AM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: COBOL2Java

Who is Reince?


13 posted on 06/07/2015 7:40:36 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Lol...check your TSA handbook.


14 posted on 06/07/2015 7:47:05 AM PDT by mac_truck (Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: cynwoody
I don't know what happened to PRT. I could not figure out if he was a typical crank that likes Russian chauvinism and autocracy, or if he was really just a paid and cynical putinista. These putinista cranks present themselves and their ideals in much the same way. They believe America and the Western world need to be saved by a Russian tyrant who, as they see it, isn't an ex-commie turned president for life. To them, Putin is God's agent on earth sent to rescue the Christians and smite the Muslims, and kick some fag ass too.

Never mind that Putin has more to do with helping Iran with its nuclear weapons program than any other country. That he wages a covert war against a nation Russia is officially at peace with. Or that he burns the corpses of dead Russian draftees so their family won't know how they died.

There are a thousand reasons why Putin isn't as he portrays himself. He could end abortion tomorrow if he were truly some benign Christian despot, like, say, Franco was. He won't, though.

I should feel sorry for people so naïve that they fall for a Putin, but I don't. They remind me of the Lefties that used to praise every foreign commie tyrant from Lenin, to Stalin, to Mau, to Ho, to Castro, to Chavez. In fact, they're little different than Obamarobots. They cannot stand to hear any criticism of Putin. They give up their love of America and swallow whatever claptrap Putin puts out. So they're stupid and they're anti-American.

15 posted on 06/07/2015 7:50:17 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
I don't know. Why don't you start a thread on that subject?

What you're writing seems to imply that you're seeing an equivalence that makes Russian trolls no different than idiotic lefties.

16 posted on 06/07/2015 7:52:53 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: mac_truck

Whenever someone criticizes Putin or his policies, you always come along with crass and inscrutable comments of no value. What in the world goes on in your head? Are you on drugs?


17 posted on 06/07/2015 7:54:42 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: elhombrelibre
Who is Reince?

Reince Priebus, the GOPe's head toady and chief FR Troll recruiter.

18 posted on 06/07/2015 8:12:45 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: elhombrelibre

I should feel sorry for people so naïve that they fall for a Putin, but I don’t. They remind me of the Lefties that used to praise every foreign commie tyrant from Lenin, to Stalin, to Mau, to Ho, to Castro, to Chavez. In fact, they’re little different than Obamarobots. They cannot stand to hear any criticism of Putin. They give up their love of America and swallow whatever claptrap Putin puts out. So they’re stupid and they’re anti-American.


Kremlin Claptrap it is. While US Army Europe reports Russian forces invading Ukraine and shows intel they continue to parrot whatever the Kremlin talking points of the day are. I remember going in circles RE Crimea last yer with them. Now that a Russian agent from Moscow has admitted to dissolving the Crimean parliament at gun point and Putin has handed out the medals we never hear about Crimea from our Putinists.

Instead we see they post on inane things like gay parade while being MIA on important things like Russia violating a ICBM treaty while threatening nuclear war.

No genuine American conservative would behave in such a way. Anti-American indeed.


19 posted on 06/07/2015 8:30:14 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: elhombrelibre
I'm waiting for the trolls in the DNC war rooms - the kind George Stephanopoulos use to run - to come forward with confessions.

I want to hear about the fake letters to the editors - the fake letters to Democrat AND Republican office holders...

And the ‘research’ to undermine the ability of Americans citizens to speak to each other without their psych ops crap..

Come forward democrat trolls... publishers will pay big time for your stories... go to Ann Coulter... she'll get you a publisher.

20 posted on 06/07/2015 8:33:49 AM PDT by GOPJ (If the MSM stops lying about conservatives, we'll stop telling the truth about them.)
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