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The 25-year-old has been speaking regularly to her mother, who lives in Moscow. But in these conversations, and even after sending videos from her heavily bombarded hometown, Oleksandra is unable to convince her mother about the danger she is in.
"I didn't want to scare my parents, but I started telling them directly that civilians and children are dying," she says.
"But even though they worry about me, they still say it probably happens only by accident, that the Russian army would never target civilians. That it's Ukrainians who're killing their own people."
It's common for Ukrainians to have family across the border in Russia. But for some, like Oleksandra, their Russian relatives have a contrasting understanding of the conflict. She believes it's down to the stories they are told by the tightly-controlled Russian media.
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Scrivener7
(50,955 posts)Claustrum
(4,845 posts)authoritarian countries employs? The difference though is that they have no way of finding out the truth. It's the only "truth" that's being taught and can access by them. On the other hand, our people have the freedom and access to the real truth.
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)Look whos President eg.
dawg
(10,624 posts)it always makes me wonder if I'm mostly immune, or if there are big lies that I've just "accepted" as true myself, based on being immersed in the culture I was born into.