Russian propagandists are war criminals like Putin

The army of Putin's imperial propagandists has once again begun to frighten the world with nuclear Armageddon. As if only Russia has nuclear weapons. And one of the main ideologues of the Kremlin's propaganda, TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, has even started to put forward crazy ideas that Russia should attack Germany and France. After all, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that the West should not allow Russia to win the war against Ukraine, and France plans to supply its military equipment to Kyiv.

Admittedly, Putin has succeeded in brainwashing Russians, and now, for most of them, the TV thinks for them. It makes their lives easier because it seems that this will help them to relieve themselves of the burden of responsibility for the terrible crimes against humanity that Russian terrorist forces have been committing in Ukraine since February 24, 2022.

It can be said that over the two decades of the dictatorial regime in Russia, its population has abnormally changed its brain biochemistry. They can’t distinguish black from white, evil from good, and are ready to tolerate anything that Putin tells them through his belligerent propagandists on TV. And if during the years of "perestroika" (USSR's period of reforms in 1980s, associated with Gorbachev - ed.) only Anatoly Kashpirovsky and Alan Chumak (soviet TV-healers - ed.) were engaged in TV zombieing, now a dozen highly paid TV "kashpirovskys" are working for the tyrant, who do not disdain anything to please their master in the Kremlin.  

Teachers, bakers, firefighters, doctors, drivers, and bankers, all of them are in a desperate situation. And when they watch TV in the evening, where they see and hear how Russia is confidently "winning" everywhere and is "supported" by most countries in the world in its aggressive war against Ukraine, they feel better. This means that the "leaders" are leading the country in the right direction. 

Since the beginning of the full-scale war, Russian state television has removed all former entertainment shows from its programs, filling the airwaves with propaganda political talk shows and state-controlled news. The information evil is being replicated on such an unimaginable scale. It is almost impossible to escape this propaganda tsunami. The popularization of "advanced Putin politics" among the masses does not spare even schoolchildren and students, who may be crippled by it for life.

Internet regulator Roskomnadzor, since the beginning of the war, has ultimately ordered media outlets to delete messages containing the words "invasion" or "war" and to rely only on official government sources that refer to the war in Ukraine as a "special operation." At some point, Russians need to wake up and realize that 2+2 does not equal 5, as Putin claims. You can't blindly take everything on faith when you hear what the chauvinistic "kashpirovskys" on TV such as Simonyan, Solovyov, Skabeyeva, Popov, Sheinin, Kiselev, or Keosayan are saying.

“The "wizards of the brown world" are doing their best to help the tyrant whitewash Russia's terrorist war with lies, denials of truth, outright falsifications, xenophobia, and the pseudo-Christian fanaticism of "Gundyaev's Orthodoxy." Not wanting to understand that each of their television programs is the best evidence against them in the future in an international court, where they will have to be no witnesses at all”

The "wizards of the brown world" are doing their best to help the tyrant whitewash Russia's terrorist war with lies, denials of truth, outright falsifications, xenophobia, and the pseudo-Christian fanaticism of "Gundyaev's Orthodoxy." Not wanting to understand that each of their television programs is the best evidence against them in the future in an international court, where they will have to be no witnesses at all.            

Propaganda can keep the population of Russia under control for a long time. But when Russians have now begun to experience serious economic pressure and a sharp decline in their standard of living, it will no longer be possible to cover up the miserable realities of everyday life with TV zombie talk. And here militaristic chauvinism will not help.

The former communist ideology has been skillfully recast as imperial arrogance, thus improving the tyranny of Putin's personality cult. Although there is an ideology, it is skillfully disguised as the propagandistic "objectivity" of TV hosts. Like the most famous "political assassin" on Soviet television, Valentin Zorin, who 50 years ago, choked up and talked about the hopeless poverty in which all Americans and Europeans live. And it so happened that some of the current "stars" of Russian political television even had time to do an internship with Valentin Zorin when Putin brought him back to TV in early 2000, although he was already about 90 years old.

Now, propaganda, again like in the USSR, operates in the complete absence of any competitors, and most dissidents have been pushed out of Russia. Putin's Russians live in their own "information bubble," which is impossible to penetrate from the outside, as the despot has done everything to block the way for his compatriots to access global media and social networks.

Eighty-five percent of Russians get all their news from television. Putin's TV reached three-quarters of Russians even when channels such as Dozhd and the BBC were still freely available in Russia. For some time, Putin allowed these independent media outlets to broadcast their programs because he knew that only one in five Russians watched them.

Many in Russia consider Putin to be a savior who has come to "liberate" the Ukrainian people by the impossibility of getting alternative information from the outside. Russians do not understand that this means killing Ukrainians indiscriminately, destroying cities and towns that were living normal peaceful lives a year ago.

Television without an alternative has become a central element of the Kremlin's struggle to win the information and psychological war against the West. By distorting historical truth, propagandists present Russia as a completely different civilization that fights uncompromisingly against all those "negative manifestations" that America and Europe pass off as civilizational development. So, a spiritual and strong Russia has no right to lose to the "forces of world evil."

It won't be long before hyper-patriotic Russians who don't want to face the world's realities will ban foreign languages in their schools. The reasoning behind this decision is that true patriots don't need it at all, and those who are not strong-minded and prone to wavering in their views and beliefs are confused by it.

“Today, Putin is essentially waging two wars. One is the war with Ukraine, in which he has no chance of winning. And the other is the regime's propaganda war against its own people, the only real enemy of the usurper”

Today, Putin is essentially waging two wars. One is the war with Ukraine, in which he has no chance of winning. The other is the regime's propaganda war against its own people, the only real enemy of the usurper. It is aimed at preventing anyone from even having the desire to make their own decisions freely. After all, for Putin's government, the highest level of patriotism is complete obedience to the leader's decisions, and anyone who disagrees with this automatically becomes an enemy of the current regime.

That is why millions of Russians are simply numb with horror at the consequences that open dissent can bring. They are not as ignorant as it may seem at first glance, but they have been following the specific Russian path for too long to know that no force outside of Russia will come to liberate them. And they are not yet capable of liberating themselves.

They are also can’t understand that the crimes against humanity committed by their military in Ukraine are nothing more than ethnic cleansing and terrorism, for which they will also have to answer. But Russians' brains, programmed by TV to wage war, can’t realize that Putin is not the only one to blame. Their support for the war or their tacit consent to it through non-resistance to its conduct will also qualify as participation in it. After all, in this case, the state is acting on their behalf and with their consent.

Russians live and have lived in an abnormal society, whether it is today's Russia or the old Soviet Union, where people grew up receiving false information about themselves and the world around them. In most cases, they were content with it. For a variety of complex reasons, the former homo sovieticus turned into homo puticunisa, but there remained distorted notions of superiority and exclusivity, with pathological patriotism and the experience of slavery, colonialism, endless wars and violence.

After the collapse of the USSR, it seemed that Russians had gained a strong immunity and would never trust state propaganda again. But things came full circle so quickly that they began to believe, for some reason, in the blatantly propagandistic Kremlin clichés that Ukraine never existed as a state and was once only a small territory called Malorossia. Believing the claims that modern Ukraine was constructed by the former Soviet Union and that the Crimean peninsula has always been Russian property.

“With the war in Ukraine, Putin has deprived the Russian people of a future. The pathological sociopath is unable to appreciate what he has actually done, trying to restore Russians to their former "imperial greatness" at any cost. No country in the world today is as totally zombified as Russia”

With the war in Ukraine, Putin has deprived the Russian people of a future. The pathological sociopath is unable to appreciate what he has actually done, trying to restore Russians to their former "imperial greatness" at any cost. No country in the world today is as totally zombified as Russia.

Russia, during its first invasion of Ukraine in 2014, completed its transition from authoritarianism to totalitarianism. Because in authoritarian regimes, you will be left alone as long as you keep your mouth shut. But totalitarian dictators already demand your active and passionate support. Those who do not express their support are noticed, singled out and severely punished.

After the outbreak of a large-scale war on February 24, 2022, Putin is no longer satisfied with all his TV propaganda postulates being simply absorbed by the population. He wants everyone to become supporters of his war cult, and to gladly go to their deaths to preserve his criminal regime.

“An international tribunal verdict stated the father of Third Reich propaganda, the editor-in-chief of the weekly Der Stürmer, Julius Streicher, was sentenced to death. William Joyce (Lord Haw-haw), a Nazi propagandist and host of English-language programs on German radio, also hanged for propagandizing Nazism, received the same fate”

So, all those propagandists of racism who provide the tyrant with information zombification of the population with the need for war are war criminals and must be held fully accountable for this.

An international tribunal verdict stated the father of Third Reich propaganda, the editor-in-chief of the weekly Der Stürmer, Julius Streicher, was sentenced to death. William Joyce (Lord Haw-haw), a Nazi propagandist and host of English-language programs on German radio, also hanged for propagandizing Nazism, received the same fate.

Nowadays, of course, times are different, but the question arises: shouldn't we return to the traditional practice of dealing with information criminals? After all, Russian propagandists are just as guilty of fomenting war as Putin.  

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About the author. Viktor Kaspruk, journalist

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