The creepy piece of propaganda entitled “What should Russia do with Ukraine?” published by the RIA Novosti news agency, states that Russian forces should not discriminate sharply between the Ukrainian army and civilians. “Depersonalization is necessary when a significant part of the people – probably the majority – has been absorbed and drawn into politics by the Nazi regime. That is, when the premise “people are good – government is bad” does not work, he says. The Putin regime claims, without evidence, that its invasion of Ukraine is necessary to “de-nationalize” what it considers to be an area of Russia affected by the fascists. The RIA article, written by Timofei Sergeitsev, goes on to say that “a significant part of the masses, who are passive Nazis, accomplices of Nazism, are also guilty. War criminals and Nazi activists must be punished appropriately and ostentatiously.” It must be thoroughly cleaned. ” Evidence of the rape and execution of Ukrainian civilians by Russian soldiers is mounting, following the discovery of mass graves and other atrocities left behind by Russian forces retreating to cities including Bhutan in northern Ukraine. Concerns that Moscow had planned for the deaths of huge numbers of Ukrainian civilians have been heightened by the appearance of a Russian government document instructing its troops on how to dig and fill “emergency” mass graves. The document dates from September 2021 – long after Russian forces began concentrating near the Ukrainian border. According to Eastern Europe expert Sergei Sumlenny, former director of the Heinrich Böll think tank (affiliated with the German Green Party), the document is proof that “Russia had planned to occupy Kyiv in three days and force Ukraine to capitulate “and that Moscow was planning” a genocide of such magnitude that it has never seen since the end of World War II. “ He claims that the Russian army units were to be followed by thousands of riot police and that the Russian army had brought 45,000 bags of corpses and mobile crematoria. “I am convinced that they were planning mass executions for Ukraine,” he wrote on Twitter. The Kremlin denies that there were deliberate attacks on Ukrainian civilians by its troops. However, Ukrainian officials say they are afraid they will reveal evidence of more atrocities of the kind found in Bucha. Russian forces have been accused of committing similar crimes in Afghanistan and Chechnya in order to intimidate civilians and discourage them from joining or aiding the armed resistance. Volodymyr Zelensky said the RIA article should be used as evidence for a future trial of Russian war criminals. “On the same day, April 3, when people were horrified to see the bodies of the dead in Butsa, an article justifying the genocide of Ukrainians was published on the website of the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti,” he added. “It is said that even the name of our state must be erased. In fact, it is said that the deaths of so many of our people in the war are only welcome. “ Vera Ageeva, a Russian political scientist who read the RIA article, told me she thought it was “somewhat genocidal.” He said the article and the attacks by Russian forces on Ukrainian civilians were signs of Russian “kleptofascism”. “These are war crimes of the Russian army,” he said. “International investigations will reveal the specific names of the victims and the killers. “This is the darkest page in modern Russian history.” An indication of what the Ukrainians would have reserved if Russia had gained control of their country, the RIA article says, “further de-depopulation of the population consists of retraining, which is achieved through ρή strict censorship: not only in the political sphere, but necessary in the field of culture and education “. He reiterated the Kremlin’s typical refrain that Ukraine is not a real country. “Ukrainianism is an artificial anti-Russian construction that has no culture of its own.” The RIA article also calls for “the creation of a tribunal for crimes against humanity in the former Ukraine.” He added: “In this respect, Russia should act as the custodian of the Nuremberg trials.”
Putin’s tsarist dreams
The RIA article seems to be part of Vladimir Putin’s redesign of Russian and Ukrainian history, presented in a bizarre 6,800-word essay from July 2021 entitled “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians.” The dictator likes to channel the religious, ostensibly mystical propaganda of the Tsars. This attracts the sense of the Russian Empire and the Slavic tradition – which dates back to the time of St. Vladimir, the Grand Prince of Kiev around 980 AD – and is the basis of his view that Ukraine is not, and is not can never be, an independent country. Putin’s crusade lacks moral credibility with the support of the corrupt and reactionary Russian Orthodox Church. But also citing the USSR’s struggle against Nazism, while ordering Russia’s illegal attack on Ukraine, Putin and Kremlin propagandists hope to add a degree of modern significance.
Examples of Kremlin propaganda
The Kremlin has refused to use the word “war” or “invasion” – claiming the troops are in a “special military operation”. The Russian media is obliged to use the same euphemism Russia’s curriculum has also been modified to reflect Putin’s desire to call the war a “special operation.” The students received a virtual lesson on “why the liberation mission in Ukraine is a necessity”, according to the Ministry of Enlightenment, which is responsible for education. Michael Day
