According to the command, otherwise "the Nazis will stop receiving weapons and money from Western countries." And if someone did not know, then the Russian army did not attack the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but simply decided to launch a preemptive strike due to the fact that within some hours Ukraine would have attacked first. And if we take into account the fact that the country's leadership was going to use a dirty atomic bomb against the Kremlin. But we should not forget about the secret American bio laboratories where combat strains were developed, they were going to be sent on migratory birds towards the Russians, because they can only infect them. In general, it became clear that Ukraine is just a battlefield between the "Pindos" and "Russian liberators", where the future of the entire planet will be decided.
“How can you believe in this substitution of concepts, when black is given out as white, and vice versa? When the aggressor acts as a peacemaker and there is a lot of evidence for that?
But be that as it may, this is the official position of the Kremlin. And a lot of Russians believed it. Older people are starting to believe this because they take these stories about Ukrainian Nazism and fascism very harshly, arguing endlessly with the younger generation who see the obvious lie in every word of Putin. His propaganda is mainly aimed at justifying the campaign of brother against brother and the seizure of Ukraine, allegedly in order to protect the citizens of Russia and Donbas. It would seem that this becomes obvious, but no.
Why is this happening? Can't the Russian people so easily believe in the word of this propaganda pouring from TV screens? There is the Internet, where everyone can figure out for himself which side is the truth or the lie?
But truthful voices of truth are pressed every day by loud false speeches. Therefore, even if you try to find information about the war between Russia and Ukraine, then this will not be found at all, because this is a special operation. The main problem is that now it is impossible to talk about the situation at the front because this falls under the article. For the dissemination of data discrediting the actions of the Russian army, you can get 15 years. For appeals against the conduct of war, they give 3 years. Now all the media, including Novaya Gazeta, which received the Nobel Prize, should write a special operation, and not say it as it is - war. Other social networks and democratic media that did not want to obey the new law were blocked or banned.
Citizens of the Russian Federation were quickly plunged into an information vacuum in which they cannot understand the situation objectively.
Naturally, this is not the only thing, because the Internet is replete with photo and video content, which every now and then gets into the eyes and ears of the domestic audience, breaking through the iron curtain of Russia. But it became clear that now the truth has no such weight. They are turned upside down and presented in a diametrically opposite narrative. People are more exposed not to reality, but to an imaginary world that does not intersect.
In my country, I had no reason to be proud after sending Yuri Gagarin into space and winning the Great Patriotic War.
Thanks to the monstrous dedication of the Soviet people, they managed to get the long-awaited victory in the Great Patriotic War, but with what sacrifices? More than 20 million people gave their lives for this, so it has become sacred for almost every family. But Putin's PR agents and ideologies began to use it for their own purposes, identifying themselves and their entourage with the heirs of the Victory.
In ordinary life, the vast majority of citizens of the Russian Federation are unable to resist Putin's state, which is no longer imposing a civil, but a loyal consciousness. There is a big and banal demand among the people for respect for self-esteem, but this regime is trying with all its might to suppress the self-respect of the people. This is based primarily on the feeling of helplessness before the regime, which has already managed to register itself in the consciousness. Instead of patriotism, imperial chauvinism is being actively imposed on people.
This regime is not able to give citizens what they have been demanding for decades, only getting poorer. The people are both intimidated and embittered at the authorities. Among other things, people are tormented by a sense of the futility of life, which every year becomes more and more like torture. And, when many begin to understand who is really to blame for all their misfortunes, they often do not have the courage to admit it even to themselves.
Putin's propaganda offers a convenient myth through which the people are encouraged to come to terms with their miserable lives. It is enough just to believe that the Great Patriotic War was not over but continues. The imposed feeling of belonging to something great sounds like a mantra every time for someone who even tries to get to the bottom of the truth. Moreover, the imposition of spiritual bonds takes place in a country where in reality only an insignificant part of people believe in God. Starting from the moment when Crimea was annexed to Russia, every propaganda “iron” sounded the concept, according to which the people were convinced for 8 years that the seizure of the territories of Ukraine would continue and that this process was inevitable.
In confirmation that the Nazis are the true power over all of Ukraine, for almost ten years the people have been shown the same few videos and photographs from torchlight processions. And it even becomes unimportant that Volodymyr Zelensky, elected by the vast majority of Ukrainian citizens, is a Jew of Russian origin. Facts become irrelevant, and instead, something completely different is forced upon them.
People are trying to provide a new meaning to life, which they themselves have long lost. They are given a chance to love Russia again and be proud of everything she does. Gradually, this becomes the basis for experiencing a sense of self-respect in everyday life. Moreover, for this, there is no need to even get up from your chair to feel how much Western sanctions worsen the standard of living, and this gives a feeling of involvement in this war. Western sanctions in response to the invasion of Ukraine are presented as aggression by the NATO countries themselves, who sleep and see how to weaken Russia and enslave all its citizens. This is what Putin has been talking about for years.
In this pseudo-patriotic frenzy, people stop seeing the truth. It is very difficult to convince people, even by providing bare facts, that the “righteousness” of this special operation has nothing to do with saving the people of Ukraine, who are allegedly held captive by nationalist battalions. The Russian army is bombing Ukrainian cities, which is why we see colossal losses among the civilian population. Those who believe in Putin's ideology can no longer recognize reality as it is because this means losing confidence that your country and you, along with it, are not really on the side of good. It is very difficult to accept a sense of guilt because in this case, it will be necessary to accept a sense of responsibility for the mass death of children and women in Ukraine in this completely unjust war. For such people, who have been brainwashed for years, it is extremely difficult to admit that Putin's propaganda called good evil. Because of this, many people in Russia fell into a real trap. We got a sense of imperial nostalgia at the moment when we had to face the fact that every year the people are impoverished. Having received a sense of belonging to a great historical mission, the Russian people became a real accomplices in war crimes. And the longer this all goes on, the more innocent blood will be shed, and it will be more difficult for the people to believe in the truth without losing themselves completely.
But sooner or later this realization will surely come to the common people. This is what the authorities fear the most. Therefore, there is a ban on all media and other sources of information that call a spade a spade, and the war is a war.
It is impossible to limit the truth in today's world. Already, thousands of Russian soldiers killed in the war in Ukraine will soon return to Russia in black plastic coffins. Tens of thousands of soldiers will tell their families how they opposed not the nationalist battalions, but the Ukrainian people, which some still continue to call brotherly even after the attack. Residents of Ukraine will one day pick up the phone and tell their relatives from the Russian Federation how everything really happened.
This is a huge price to pay so that we just start believing in the truth and not in propaganda. But one day we will be able to find the strength in ourselves to believe in the reality of what is happening.