Posted on 04/19/2014 12:22:23 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
A Users Guide to Russian Propaganda
Submitted by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton on April 19, 2014 3:07 pm ESTNo Comment
By: Brent P.
Western press and media are having trouble distinguishing facts from Russian propaganda. This is understandable the Russian propaganda machine is a mature and venerable institution that engages in an art that, for better or for worse, the West simply does not practice as often nor as effectively. The intent of this guide is to help those less accustomed to the ways of the Russian government to discern between reporting and propaganda. There are a few simple tell-tale signs.
Types of propaganda to look for the signs, the impact, and the facts:
SIGN #1: Reporting that points to ethnic divisions and Kyivs Maidan as a source of unrest.
IMPACT: Western media call into question the stability of the interim Ukrainian government, and speculate that Ukraine is a hotbed of prejudice on the brink of civil war.
FACT: Modern Ukraine has no history of ethnic conflict. Furthermore, the Maidan was a gathering place for Ukrainians of all ethnic backgrounds:
A Facebook post by an Afghan-Ukrainian triggered the first mass protest at Kyivs Maidan last November;
An Armenian-Ukrainian and a Belarusian were the first to die at the hands of the governments internal police.
Jewish-Ukrainians formed a self-defense unit to support Maidan in Kyiv and fight against the Yanukovych regime;
Numerous Jewish thought-leaders and organizations have spoken out against Kremlin propaganda portraying Maidan participants as anti-Semites or neo-Nazis;
Russian-Ukrainians are enlisting to protect their Ukrainian homeland against Russian armed forces;
Crimean Tatars have been staunch supporters of Maidan and are actively resisting Russias military aggressions in Crimea.
Just like the United States of America, Ukraine is multi-national and diverse. Are the diverse United States capable of being a unified democracy? Sure! So is Ukraine
There was a story on how some nerds hacked a US Kiev embassy employee’s email and there was a discussion with Ukrainian deputy MoD on how to make a false flag attack on an airbase in mainland Ukraine during Crimean takeover.
I wonder why it wasn’t big news, guys in hackers’ forums are all in agreement that these are authentic emails.
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LOL ! You Mongoloids are underestimating the Yanks, majority of them are not that stupid to fall for this childish garbage.
“modern Ukraine has no ethnic conflict” if this means in the past 23 years then yes. If they mean from 1918 then no. Even in the 40s the UPA was slaughtering Poles, the Banderistas
This is Putin’s Russia:
Earlier this year, a 488-page document, the product of a decade-long investigation by Spanish prosecutors into the linkages between organized crime and the Kremlin, alleged that Russia’s Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, owes his political career to Gennady Petrov, a high-ranking member of the Tambov crime syndicate. The Tambov gang was the top mafia clan active in St. Petersburg in the 1990s, around the time when a young Vladimir Putin was active in the city’s government. Spanish wiretaps allegedly caught Bastrykin’s lawyer openly thanking Petrov for having arranged political promotions for his boss. And Bastrykin was hardly the only high-ranking official implicated: there were are at least a few Duma deputies, a former Defense Minister, and even a former Prime Minister.
And just two weeks ago, the results of an investigation published by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny thoroughly shook up Moscow in revealing that the two sons of Russian Attorney General Yuri Chaika had engaged in a close business partnership with Russia’s criminal Godfather Sergei Tsapok. Tsapok, whose gang in Russiaâs Krasnodar region operated with impunity for years and received protection from higher-level authorities, became known country-wide in 2010 after his goons killed a dozen of people, including women and children, in what became known as the Kuschevskaya massacre.
http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/12/23/the-implications-of-russias-mafia-state/
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