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Apr 5 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
Why Russia's propaganda helps us to close our eyes: 🧵

- "Ukraine is not a real state" -> "maybe it is not so bad if it gets cut into pieces"

- "Ukraine is staging war crimes" -> "maybe it is fake so I can sleep better"

- "8 years in Donbas" -> "No idea about it, but maybe..."
- "Ukraine wanted to attack Donbas/Crimea" -> "Who knows, maybe Ukrainians are also aggressive"
- "Russian language is forbidden in Ukraine" -> "I was never there, but it could be and it is a provocation"
- "The West wants to destroy Russia" -> "Maybe Russia is just reacting..."
....and finally, the worst #FalseBalance

"It is a special operation for denazification, saving Donbas and protecting Russia's security" -> "well, maybe the truth is at least in the middle"

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Dietmar Pichler 🇪🇺🇺🇦 Profile picture
Mar 31
So while Russian disinformation is so repetitive, why can't we do the same with some facts about the last 8 years🧵

No, RU language is NOT banned in Ukraine🇺🇦:
Recently abducted mayor of Melitopol: "We speak Russian, there is no problem, but the RU soldiers did not believe me."
"8 years of genocide in Donbas 2014-2022":

~13.000 people have been killed. ~10.000 of them UA soldiers or Russian/"pro Russian" fighters.

~3000 civilians died

Russian forces shelling Mariupol is not new:
31 civilians killed 2015
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2…
"Separatism":

Igor Girkin "Minister of Defense DNR", a Russian nationalist from Moscow said once "I pulled the trigger", without him there would be no war. Alexander Borodai "Prime Minister DNR"(also a facist from Moscow) was also a leading figure.
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Mar 29
Examples how Russia is bashing Ukraine or contradicting it's own propaganda 🧵(Thread)

1) The crucified kid: Yes, that fake video still matters in Russia and many believe the story about "evil Ukrainians killing an innocent Russian kid."
2) Hitler on new "Ukrainian Banknote". Of course the banknote is made by photoshop, but Rossija1, Russia's main TV channel reported the whole story as a "fact" and many people believed that Ukraine is gonna have a Hitler-banknote soon. Image
"Anti-fascist" forces are fighting against "fascist Ukrainians in Donbas": There are so many nationalistic & neo-nazi groups involved on the pro-Russian side, impossible to mention all of them : RNE, NOD, Sparta Battalion, Interbrigades, Russian Orthodox Army and many more.
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Mar 24
Es geht nicht um eine "eskalierende Aufrüstung", sondern um eine längst notwendige Modernisierung und Korrektur der Unterfinanzierung von sowohl der Bundeswehr, als auch dem Bundesheer und vieler anderer Streitkräfte innerhalb der Europäischen Union. 🧵
Ja, das schützt nicht vor Atomwaffen, macht aber einen konventionellen Angriff unwahrscheinlicher bzw. schwieriger. Im russischen StaatsTV diskutieren Propagandisten über Angriffe in Richtung Polen, Litauen (Landbrücke nach Kaliningrad) und rechnen mit einer "einfachen Operation)
In Schweden gibt es massive Bedenken was die Insel Gotland betrifft, immer wieder provozieren russische Jets. Auch Finnland wird bedroht. In Putins "Geschichtsstunden" und auch von anderen Ideologen, wird das Gebiet des alten russischen Reiches beansprucht.
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Mar 23
Russian Disinfo-Strategy
Professor @TimothyDSnyder tried to warn us already in 2014. Putin is using different (disinfo) stories, for different target audiences. He has a storyline for the far left, for the far right, some storylines fit to both parts of the political spectrum.🧵
What Europeans have completely overseen, especially during the last months, was that he has also specific storylines for the European audience and his own, domestic audience. "NATO expansion" vs."Genocide in Donbas" "Nazis in Ukraine", "imminent Ukrainian attack on Donbas/Crimea"
If we take a look at the messages he delivered to his domestic audience, it is quite easy to see, that there was never a realistic chance to reach a diplomatic solution. You can't tell your people about "attacks" or "genocide" and not react, just because NATO takes a step back.
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Mar 22
Das Video von Arnold Schwarzenegger ging in Russland viral, mich überrascht es nicht, war vor 10 Jahren schon auf VK in einer großen Arnold Gruppe. Inzwischen reagieren bereits diverse Propagandisten darauf. Was sagen Sie jetzt @gerhard_mangott ? 🧵
thedailybeast.com/russian-state-…
Schwarzenegger hat eine große Fangemeinde in Russland. Er durfte bereits 1988 am roten Platz drehen, wo er Ivan Danko, einen sowjetischen Polizisten spielte. Aber auch in der Bodybuilding Szene war er aktiv in Russland unterwegs.
Er traf dort auch diverse KraftsportlerInnen.

2010 traf er, inzwischen Politiker, mit Dmitrij Medwedew zusammen. Putin folgt nur 22 accounts auf Twitter, einer davon ist der von Schwarzenegger
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Dietmar Pichler 🇪🇺🇺🇦 Profile picture
Mar 21
#Disinformation or #Propaganda against #Ukraine these days is aiming to lose empathy for Ukrainians.🧵

- they are Nazis
- bad people
- do not deserve help

...unfortunately, it works, since 8 years..and people who are "tired" by the war-news, are more eager to swallow it
Yes, some refugees arrive in EU countries with quite expensive cars. Anecdotal evidence for people who say: "they are all rich", even if it is empirically totally wrong.
The same we can see with the focus on far right groups: Far right parties play no significant role in Ukrainian politics, they have even problems to move into the parlament.
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