Thread by @Fella_IA_X25

1/ The first #UsefullIdiots .The term stands for a person which is easy to manipulate and guess origin. Yes. #Russia. Lenin invented this term and Stalin perfectioned it along with misinformation, censoring and suppression. If you think these are extreme measurements, then …

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2/ take a look what happens when it comes to a real crisis. To increase the income of the soviet union, #Stalin started to reform the agriculture. He pushed the people into corporate companies to make them the producers for cities, the military and for export (slavery). The …

3/ outcome was a famine in 1931. Alone in #Ukraine, millions of people died or fell into cannibalism and regions who protested got almost no food so that they die. That was the „Holodomor“ and the international and national press didn’t report about this event. Nobody knew that…

4/ there a million of people were dying. Instead of admitting that the agriculture reform didn’t work, he continued because he thought that the preservation of the socialist system is more important. But what will happen when the people will find it out?

5/ Stalin had to act and like every dictator, he created his own reality by closing off Ukraine from the international public. He knew that at the end, the international press will always find a way into Ukraine. His solution?

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6/ educe Outsiders. In the 1930s, a lot of people (mostly left liberals) thought that the communism is a real alternative to capitalism. Because of this they didn’t want to believe negative stories about the soviet union. Every autocratic regime uses them. As independent person..

7/ or institutions they confer credibility and legitimacy to this regime. Adolf Hitler had the Duke of Windsor and Charles Lindberg, Kim Jong Un had Denis Rodman, but Stalin went much further. He invited a lot of left writers from George Bernard Shaw via H.G. Wels to…

8/ to Jean Paul Sartre to watch the socialist utopia of their dreams by themselves. But to sell his version, Stalin had to win a credible voice like Walter Duranty (New York Time Bureau). Duranty was since 1922 the man of the new York Times in Moscow. Within his colleagues,

9/ Duranty was more known for his woman tales and his wooden foot, rather than principles. The rumors about his ambitious goals as well as his disputable compass were know in the Kremlin. Stalin realized how this reporter can be used to distract from the ongoing famine and…

10/ nvited him into the Kremlin for a private interview to tell him all the miracles of the communism and the plan for soviet wealth. Duranty wrote a lot of articles for Stalin and later Stalin invited him to #Ukraine which was closed for the most international journalists...

11/ They drove him into #Ukraine and showed him places were no famine was visible. But when he went deeper into the country, the reality went undeniable. Did he report the truth? No! He continued to write articles to discredit rumors about the famine. And now guess what. He got..

12/ a Purlitzer Price for his fake news which embossed Stalin’s image in the whole world. Today. This is still a dark shadow of the New York Times history…  

#RevokeDurantyPulitzer

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13/ And you thought there were a democratic change in Russia? Here I want to quote @ivanastradner with „Russians love historyEspecially Zar Putin the first. In times of digitalization they perfections the digital warfare. And from here on I would suggest to dive into…

14/ @P_Kallioniemi daily #Vatnik soup. He collected data and formed it into awesome information.

https://twitter.com/p_kallioniemi/status/1618236448179916800

15/ Maybe it is useful for your memes #NAFOfellas of #NAFO ! ❤️ You are awesome!