Ukrainian woman struggles to get Russian parents to believe that civilians are under attack

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Lisa, a Ukrainian woman who escaped Kyiv and is currently in western Ukraine and who also asked that her last name not be used for safety purposes, appeared Monday on Don Lemon Tonight, where she spoke about the effectiveness of the disinformation campaign that the Russian government is currently running on its citizens. Lisa said that her parents live in Russia, and believe the propaganda they are fed on a daily basis. Even her own evidence wasn’t enough to convince them that the Russian military is doing anything wrong.

“They can’t believe that Russians are doing anything wrong. They can’t believe that Russians are hitting civilian buildings,” Lisa said, later adding, “Even when I show the photo of my own neighborhood, which is rocket-launched, they still … they — I can’t understand how it happens.”

The Russian government has recently cracked down on independent journalism and free speech even more than normal in an attempt to spin its own narrative about the war that it started, and Lisa said her parents believe what the government is telling them.

“They really believe what they see on TV more,” Lisa said. “Of course they are afraid for my own safety and for their grandchildren, but I’ve heard from them that even things like Ukrainian army is shooting its own civilians. But who serves in the Ukrainian army? Those who have their homes and their families here.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ukrainian-woman-struggles-russian-parents-believe-civilians-under-attack-085336845.html

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1. Another article called this "complicity through years of political passivity."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=316409

I think that applies. They can't possibly believe that Russian media doesn't lie. But it's easier to proceed as if they do.

If 30 percent of the country is out protesting, the other 70 percent knows something is up. And when you hear it from your own child whose neighborhood has been bombed? And you deny it?

They're complicit.