"Dozhd" is excellent example of professional Russian propaganda resource
As a result of total degradation, Skabeeva can no longer do so. She and her colleagues are professionally unsuitable
In fact, the way "Dozhd" works, Skabeeva, Simonyan, Solovyov should work.
For hundreds of years, Russia has been extremely successful in promoting its fake normality in Europe and among its own population.
Journalists, writers, and public figures of Russia allowed themselves slight sarcasm towards authorities, as if telling the world and Russians themselves that yes, our country is a bit of mess, but look, there is ironic Pushkin, wise Tolstoy, bunch of St. Petersburg and Moscow intelligentsia. These are completely normal and even wonderful, interesting and fascinating people! - said Russia through the mouths of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and media staff.
And trusting province from Poltava, Donetsk, Minsk, Tbilisi, Almaty ecstatically sought to feel kinship with this greatness. Outskirts of the empire dreamed of joining great hearth of Russian culture. To receive high-minded Russian intellectuals at home, to learn from them, to be similar.
It was the same staple that held the empire together. A bulwark of greatness, profound cultural and humanitarian superiority of Russians.
But as a result of total degradation, Skabeeva can no longer do so. She and her colleagues are professionally unsuitable. Instead of subtly fooling gullible Pushkinists from colonies, she convinces even the most pro-Russian people of abnormality of Kremlin regime with her frankly genocidal statements. Their propaganda no longer works outside the borders of Moscow. For internal consumption only. Stupid, clumsy, unprofessional.
"Dozhd" is excellent example of professional Russian propaganda resource. It almost relentlessly, persistently promotes thesis about unconsciousness of Russia. Extremely useful resource for propaganda of Russian imperial idea.
But Russian degradation is irreversible process. And "Dozhd" also burned. Host slandered that editorial office supports Russian army of occupation. Two other journalists, who resigned as a sign of solidarity, only confirmed weakness of editorial office.
Everything you need to know about Russian mass media - you can't trust them. Never. It is always imitation of liberalism on the outside and support of occupying army on the inside.
About the author: Serhiy Marchenko, labor market expert, blogger.
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