Sometimes you just have to quote The Economist: the Kremlin is celebrating the annexation of Crimea as though Russia had won the second world war (again) rather than grabbing a piece of land from a smaller and weaker neighbour. The public seems intoxicated by victory in a war that was begun, conducted and won largely through propaganda. Russians have been subjected to an intense, aggressive and blunt disinformation campaign in which they were bombarded by images of violence, chaos and fascism in Ukraine, sinister plotting by the West and evidence of Russias strength and nobility in response. The Russian media have always shaped reality as much as they have reflected it.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:08:45 +0000
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