Tables Turned! Kremlin Drastically Turned Against Z-Veterans. Betrayal Inevitable - The Russian Dude

[TexasTowelie]

Russia’s state TV has launched a new propaganda project, and it’s all about veterans. Channel 1’s show “Budem Zhit’” (Let’s Live) pretends to shine a light on the struggles of Z-soldiers returning from Ukraine—trauma, unemployment, social isolation—but in reality, it’s a recruitment ad wrapped in fake compassion. The Kremlin carefully selects “stage-managed heroes” like Timur Gromov, a United Russia insider conveniently presented as an ordinary veteran. These glossy, scripted stories show “happy endings”—jobs, grants, applause—while hiding the brutal reality: the vast majority of veterans return abandoned, disabled, broke, and forgotten.

This is propaganda through pity, a false display of empathy designed to lure new recruits into Putin’s war machine. The show sells a fantasy where sacrifice equals reward, but reality offers only debt, trauma, and indifference. Russia’s veterans were promised respect, prestige, and a place in the “new elite.” Instead, they face stigma, broken families, PTSD, alcoholism, and silence. The Kremlin has turned against its own soldiers, discarding them once they’re no longer useful. “Budem Zhit’” isn’t about helping veterans—it’s about sanitizing war crimes and hiding betrayal.

The truth is clear: the tables have turned. Russia’s Z-veterans aren’t celebrated heroes, they’re liabilities. And betrayal by the Kremlin isn’t a possibility—it’s inevitable.

This is the real story behind the show. Betrayal, abandonment, propaganda, and the inevitable collapse of Russia’s promises to its soldiers. Keywords: Kremlin betrayal, Z-veterans, Channel 1 propaganda, Budem Zhit, Russian veterans abandoned, Putin war machine, fake compassion, Russian soldiers discarded, state TV manipulation, propaganda campaign, inevitable betrayal, Russia Ukraine war.

[Phoenix61]

1. Training a bunch of people to fight and pissing them

off seems like a bad idea especially if they feel they have nothing left to lose.