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steve2470

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Sun Apr 24, 2022, 05:41 PM Apr 2022

Russian pundit: "There won't be any protests, not economic protests, not mothers' protests..."

https://puck.news/mothers-for-putin/

***behind paywall, interview by Julia Ioffe****

Julia Ioffe: So we shouldn’t expect any protests, even if more coffins come back from Ukraine?

(Olga Mutovina, one of the founders of Lyudi Baikala, or “The People of the Baikal,” a publication focused on the two Russian regions that sandwich Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world) Of course not. There won’t be any protests, not economic protests, not mothers’ protests, and the reason for this is very simple: the propaganda machine has been turned all the way up and it’s swallowing people whole. All the entertainment programs are gone. Now it’s either news of the war or talk shows about it, where the propagandists are methodically painting a picture for people that squelches any questions they might have: It’s all done by the Nazis, it’s all crisis actors, et cetera. It’s a very simple picture of the world. If you watch TV, you have no chance. Unfortunately, a lot of people watch TV here, even young people. It’s a very simple way to press a button and have everything explained to you.


So sad. Pervasive intense state propaganda works, just as in Nazi Germany.

Julia Ioffe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Ioffe
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