The autumn of 2022 should be remembered by the citizens of Russia as a season of “throwing off the masks”.
All of a sudden the leading Putin’s propagandists started calling the war “war”.
Although recently, you could have been prosecuted for that.
After the taboo on the word “war” was removed, propaganda has replaced the hypocritical “human-loving” formula
with the statement “All is fair in war”.
It has been a while since they entertained us with the stories about high-precision attacks with “smart” weapons.
The ones which can identify its aim’s political views in the air
and attack only the Nazis without spoiling the life of common Ukrainians.
The Russian propaganda says nothing anymore that all those tragic accidents are the result of the Ukrainians’
“shooting at themselves”.
Do you remember such talks? Now, propagandists say it out loud,
“Yes, we destroy Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure in order to leave the Ukrainians without light, water and heat in winter.
Yes, civilians die along the way – it’s just the so-called “collateral damage”.
We are not just shooting at the cities, we think it’s a good thing to do!” All sorts of propaganda follow the new instructions.
Vladimir Soloviev who can chatter for hours on his own.
And Dmitry Kiselyov who has some kind of an author’s program with prepared scenarios.
And a speaker Valeria Korablyova whose job is to cheerfully read any news. Here, have a look.
Kyiv might stay without heating till the spring.
Vitaliy Klichko says this scenario is possible.
He says that if there is minus temperature and there isn't any heat within 24 hours,
it will be necessary to drain water from the city system to avoid its damage.
He urged the citizens to get ready and added that the heating places wouldn't save people.
What a delight! They’ve “relieved” Kyiv from heating. That’s it. All the decency is abandoned.
The Russian army is no longer leading a special operation against the Nazis and drug addicts.
It’s leading a war against the Ukrainians.
However, after revealing its real intentions, the Russian officials are still trying to justify themselves with the last excuse.
Well, the Americans bombed Yugoslavia in 1999, didn’t they? They bombed Iraq and Libya, didn’t they?
So, we can do too! Let’s discuss who can do what.
A SNAKE AND A HEDGEHOG
We’ve already drawn your attention to an interesting awarding practice.
It’s a normal thing in our country to give an Order of Friendship to those people who spread hatred.
Soloviev, Kiselyov, Simonyan and many others have such an Order.
But it would be a good thing to get all of those chaps together (and the political elites too)
and give them another award before sending them to court – “An Award of a Young Breeder”.
Because no one can cross-breed a snake and a hedgehog so well as they do it.
The first propagandist cliché is that the US is a kingdom of evil. The Americans spread chaos and death everywhere!
According to the latest data, they are Satan's servants too.
The second propagandist cliché is that the Russians act in Ukraine in the same way as the US acted in Yugoslavia.
And if it is so, leave us alone, we do everything just right! Watch your hands.
In 1999 the American planes and winged missiles destroyed Serbian civil infrastructure.
The official Moscow, undoubtedly, criticized those attacks. During the current war
Vladimir Putin recalled those 25-years-ago events several times.
And he did it with such indignation as if it happened yesterday.
We might agree with Putin here - those events are not great, to say the least.
However, now the Russian army is destroying the critical infrastructure in Ukraine.
And now, you see, our army does everything right! And why is it right?
Because those are the actions according to “the American standards”.
But how does one statement correspond to another one?
They are Satan's servants and demon spawns, and we lead the war according to their standards!
Well, it’s as similar as a snake and a hedgehog.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
If there are people in Russia who sing “God Bless America”,
it’s people from Putin’s vertical of power and their informational servants.
For them the US is both alpha and omega, the philosophical yin and yang. Look, how convenient this is!
Any time liberals like me say that it would be nice to take a leaf out of the American book
(like a competent court, free entrepreneurship, the right to criticize any decisions your government makes)
we get a straightforward answer.
“Don’t even dare to look at America! Are you mad? It’s a devilish empire of homosatanists!”.
But as soon as a liberal says that there should be no anti- constitutional laws about foreign agents in Russia,
or Russia shouldn’t start a war in Europe,
in this case both propaganda and the President himself change their position at once.
Why shouldn’t it? In the US they have a law about foreign agents.
And the US intrudes in other countries too. And America is not nothing, by the way.
It's a shining city on the hill! While riding those schizophrenic swings, the Russian officials wink sarcastically.
“So what, you, liberal idiots? Did you want it like in the US? So, you get it!
STOP BULLYING PEOPLE
Any normal person doesn’t like when he and his country are being bullied.
Instead of working the time set in the Constitution, and then solving his psychological problems in retirement,
Putin and his “camarilla” decided to take it out on common people. On the Russians and then on the Ukrainians.
The Russians are being beaten by the policemen on the streets and tortured in the police stations.
“And in America the policemen shoot to kill here and there!”
If it is so, which I’m not sure about, but let’s assume it is so – since when do Americans’ lives bother us
more than the lives of Russian citizens? You’ve said it yourself that the Americans are just perverts and satanists.
To hell with them then! It’s more important that our citizens don’t suffer.
Repressive and anti-constitutional laws don’t let the Russian journalists, human rights advocates and public figures
to work normally, they are recognized as foreign agents and by that the government closes
Russian non-commercial organizations.
Including those which until recently have helped Russian citizens with diabetes, HIV and other conditions.
“But there is a law about foreign agents in the US too, and even more strict!” Of course, it’s not true.
The American Foreign Agents Registration Act is not as severe and repressive as Putin’s laws about foreign agents.
Not even close. But it doesn’t matter actually.
Because no talks about the American laws will substitute insulin for a man with diabetes from Saratov.
For many years Putin’s Russia has been fighting against the US.
Of course, no American citizen has ever been injured during this “fight”. But millions of Russian citizens have.
And while this “fight” against America was inside the Russian borders, Putin could convey a simple message to the West.
“We might be cannibals, but we don’t impose our cannibalism on anyone else. We do it inside our own country.
And you, on the contrary, bombed Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya!”
In 2015 Putin could even speak from the UN rostrum with moral superiority.
It’s enough to have a look at the situation in the Middle East and in the Northern Africa
what the previous speaker talked about.
Of course, it’s been a while since political and social problems emerged in this region.
And people wanted changes there. But what was the result?
An aggressive intrusion from the outside resulted in the destruction of governmental institutions and the lifestyle itself
instead of reforms, instead of democracy and progress, there is violence, poverty, and social catastrophe.
And human rights, including the right to live, cost nothing at all. It’s really tempting to ask people who created such a situation,
“Do you understand, what you’ve done?”
The most interesting thing is that Vladimir Putin had all the reasons to say that.
The US really did a lot of horrible things. It was a crime to bomb Belgrade and other Serbian cities.
It’s unforgivable that the American army used weapons with depleted uranium – the Serbians still suffer from that.
The criminal mistakes were the intrusion into Iraq and into the civil conflict in Libya. This is true.
But the situation looks different from 2022.
It turns out that Putin’s Russia has never wanted to be better than America in anything.
And Putin is no moral model. He didn’t offer any reasonable alternative to the world.
He just envied the American impunity. Putin is like Beavis and Butt-head.
He made a mess from his own country and his dream is to behave like a bully Todd who escaped punishment all the time.
But Putin’s Russia is not America. Yes, America attacked Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Libya.
It’s very bad that the US allowed themselves to use “the right of the strong one”. It shouldn’t be like this.
But Putin’s Russia is a different story. A weak country tried to use the “right of the strong one”.
Putin’s Russia, damaged by corruption from the inside, by poverty and rightlessness, didn’t hit Ukraine.
It hit the Ukrainian wall.
The collision was so bad that it will take years to put our country back together.
If Putin’s Russia were as strong as America is, it shouldn’t use its power to kill people.
But why should they kill the Ukrainians in the first place?
A week ago, in the village of Novosolyonoye under Zaporizhia Maria Kamenetskaya buried her son Seryozha
who had been killed by the Russian missile. He was just 2 days old.
The photo is heartbreaking. What can you tell a young mother burying her newborn son?
That she is not the only one? That the Americans bombed Belgrade in 1999? The American army didn’t do that.
The Armed Forces of Russia did that. And they did that on our behalf.
We can’t take responsibility for the whole world and all the countries on the planet.
Yes, some countries do break international law.
But our responsibility is to make sure that no military crime was committed on behalf of our motherland – Russia.
Till tomorrow!