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Iwasthere

(3,173 posts)
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 05:13 PM Mar 2022

Best outside the box ideas to bust thru & get truths out to the Russian people

Last edited Wed Mar 9, 2022, 06:20 PM - Edit history (1)

Anyone? I posted one of my ideas a few days ago; Protesters releasing balloons with stacks of crime pics and data on what's really happening (beats getting arrested). The stacks of tiny 2 sided flyers would slip out of gentle knots awhile after the balloons are released blanketing the city (from hidden areas like behind buildings or perhaps fenced areas).

A majority of Russians still believe that Ukraine is mostly responsible for it all, that all these economic sanctions are Ukraine's fault. And they dont believe the rumors of criminal acts by putin. If a drumbeat of truth can somehow circumvent Putin's crackdown perhaps he can be stopped. This is what he's truly scared of right now.

How do they get the message to them. Any outside the box ideas? They really need to be OUTSIDE THE BOX in order to get through, right now the Russian people refuse to believe. But I don't think that should mean we give up

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Best outside the box ideas to bust thru & get truths out to the Russian people (Original Post) Iwasthere Mar 2022 OP
I'm not sure many of them want the truth. Or would even react to it Wingus Dingus Mar 2022 #1
Must try imo Iwasthere Mar 2022 #2
They don't believe videos of the atrocities. BlueLucy Mar 2022 #6
Hence the reason the ideas need to be OUTSIDE THE BOX in order to get through Iwasthere Mar 2022 #8
Updated my post Iwasthere Mar 2022 #9
Think MAGAs when you think about Putin supporters. No matter what, they hate the truth. Samrob Mar 2022 #7
Updated my post Iwasthere Mar 2022 #10
Their own flesh and blood family in Ukraine has tried to tell them BlueLucy Mar 2022 #3
Precisely. dalton99a Mar 2022 #4
Send a singing telegram... lame54 Mar 2022 #5
Imagine a country with only Fox News for 30 years jmbar2 Mar 2022 #11

BlueLucy

(1,609 posts)
6. They don't believe videos of the atrocities.
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 05:57 PM
Mar 2022

They're not going to believe a flier. I made a account on Russian social media VK and posted videos. The replies I got was Ukraine is doing that to its own people. That is the destruction the Nazis are doing.

Samrob

(4,298 posts)
7. Think MAGAs when you think about Putin supporters. No matter what, they hate the truth.
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 05:58 PM
Mar 2022

People who speak the truth are "enemies" and Putin knows more than his Generals.

jmbar2

(4,910 posts)
11. Imagine a country with only Fox News for 30 years
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 07:02 PM
Mar 2022

The propaganda techniques used by Russia will be near impossible to overcome among those who have been immersed in it. The best hope is for the young people who escape to report back. I think there is little we in the west can do at this point in time.

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