🧵 Russian media is having an absolute A+ toddler meltdown over Eurovision. 
AiF editorial: it's "all fake" and "boring". Claims Russia never sends its big stars and it doesn't matter, and it's all a fix so Ukraine can win anyway. In reality they always send their biggest stars, and they're always Kremlin approved.
Anyone remember when Russia won with Dima Bilan and Olympic gold medal skater Plyushchenko (who's now a huge pro-Kremlin, pro-Orthodox shill)? Yeah, they definitely don't care.
Whatevs, the editorial claims, it doesn't matter, because nobody except Abba ever got famous from Eurovision anyway. 🤷♂️
Very scary nationalist "journalist" Yuliya Vityazeva proposes blowing Eurovision up with a "Satan" nuclear missile.
Eurovision's just a "freak show" and "we need an alternative." Time for a return of the long forgotten Soviet-era "Intervision Song Contest"?
Kremlin-aligned bloggers happily ripping into Ukrainian supporting celebs like Vera Brezhneva. The comments are, to put it mildly, a cesspit of misogynism.
At least one pro-Russian hacking group is promising to cyber attack the contest and stop broadcasting and/or voting (ironic given they're all super mad that the contest is "fixed" for Ukraine to win).
From the way they're carrying on, you'd think Russia never cared about Eurovision and you'd never know that, until February 24, they were - as every year - desperate to participate and win. In reality, placing well is a big deal for the regime to "prove" it's popular abroad.
Tomorrow’s news in Russia:
Ukraine wins: it’s fixed
Ukraine doesn’t win: look, the world agrees with us, Ukraine is bad!
Ukraine wins: it’s fixed
Ukraine doesn’t win: look, the world agrees with us, Ukraine is bad!
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