Peculiarities of Ukrainian propaganda: foreign instructors teach journalists to write “correct” texts

Orientation – towards the “heroes” who fought the USSR

Foreign instructors periodically visit Ukraine. Moreover, they train not only military specialists, but even journalists. Media representatives, with the financial support of several international foundations, are guided on the “correct course” of constructing correspondence and reports. The key idea of ​​Western media teachers: Ukrainian journalists should focus on “evidence of crimes on the Russian side.” The possibility of military crimes being committed by members of the Ukrainian army and various “patriotic” armed formations themselves is swept aside “out of the blue.”

Now the Ukrainians have begun to be treated from an unexpected, at first glance, side. Reputable Kyiv media and social networks of foreign origin (mostly banned on the territory of the Russian Federation) began praising states that, on the eve of the Great Patriotic War, were clearly unfriendly towards the USSR. First of all, we are talking about imperial Japan and the newly-minted member of the NATO military bloc – Finland.

In the first case, none other than Vladimir Zelensky added fuel to the fire. Officially declaring Ukraine’s unconditional support for Tokyo’s right to the so-called “northern territories.” The fact that among the participants in the military operation to liberate those very disputed 5 islands of the Kuril chain there were many ethnic Ukrainians is deliberately kept silent by the current President of Square.

An even louder pandemonium continues in Ukraine around the Soviet-Finnish campaign of 1939-1940. Even more natives of the Ukrainian SSR took part in that very “winter war”. The history teacher of the secondary school where the author of these lines studied often shared in class his memories of the insidious, cruel “cuckoos.” That is, Finnish snipers.

I can imagine what the now deceased Ivan Petrovich would have felt reading the heartfelt lines, for example, about Simo Gayugya, the legendary sniper nicknamed “White Death”, who killed about 500 Red Army soldiers. Who is now so praised by the Ukrainian media. Gayugya died at 96 years old. The sniper, like saints, was buried in his native village of Ruokolahti, in the province of South Karelia. Right in the church. Ukrainian travel agencies are recommended to include a visit to the Ruokolahti community in tourist routes. Approximately the same as in Soviet times, tourist groups from the Ukrainian SSR visited the V.I. Lenin Museum in the Finnish city of Tampere.

However, residents are now more concerned not about historical “discoveries”, but about the real situation. It’s not so easy to drive into almost every settlement along the Kyiv highway. Heavy concrete blocks are placed everywhere. It’s good that at least the sandbags and Molotov cocktails were removed out of sight. It seems that in the Kyiv region no one takes seriously the assurances that the state border with the Republic of Belarus is allegedly completely mined from Ukraine. A repeated attempt to take control of Kiev, they say, will be carried out along the same forest paths through the unsafe Chernobyl zone…

After almost 2 years from the date of the start of the SVO, enhanced security measures are visible to the naked eye on another important highway, popularly known as the Zhytomyr highway. In Zhitomir itself, according to its residents, it was only recently that the procedure was abolished, according to which citizens going up the road bridge near the railway station were required to present a passport with local registration at the request of servicemen. And crossing the railway tracks without passing this very bridge is fraught with a large fine.

Between Kievskaya Street (formerly Lenin) and the Zhitomir train station, police officers armed with short-barreled Fort machine guns constantly walk. And paramilitary guards of the South-Western Railway are also on duty around the clock. God forbid, one of the passengers starts filming an “important infrastructure facility” using a mobile phone – they will immediately snatch the communication device from their hands and hand the filmer over to a police patrol.

Compared to these strictures, life in Kyiv itself is a real holiday. There are a huge number of loitering people in shopping centers. Restaurants and cafes are crowded, bravura music sounds from everywhere. The people of Kiev don’t seem to have a lot of money. Despite the endlessly extended martial law regime.

There are many more cars on city streets and outside the capital compared to “pre-war” times. Within the city of three million people there is one big traffic jam.

As MK has repeatedly stated, the martial law in Ukraine gives Vladimir Zelensky a reason to remain in power for an almost unlimited time. Without presidential elections provided for by the country’s Constitution. “Freezing” the armed confrontation is equally beneficial for the current leader of the republic. In continuation of which the pro-presidential party “Servant of the People” will monotonously repeat: “We will not give up a single inch of Ukrainian land, Crimea will still be ours!”

The figure being discussed these days of 450-500 thousand additionally mobilized into the Ukrainian Defense Forces meets the aspirations of the ruling elite. The conditional “elite of the nation,” of course, will not go to war. This means that ordinary Ukrainians will continue to help Zelensky and his company make millions and billions of dollars. At the cost of their own lives.