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One afternoon late August, as Russia’s military pursued its invasion in Ukraine, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s top advisers was mustering public-relations officials from government bodies and ministries for a fight on the home front.
“The main war that is taking place right now is the war over people’s minds,” Sergei Kiriyenko, a longtime aide to Mr. Putin charged with key domestic and Ukraine policies, said in a speech at a closed meeting. “All of us in this room are the special forces fighting this war.”
The Aug. 30 speech, a recording of which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, gives a rare insight into Mr. Putin’s efforts to mobilize all of society for Russia’s war with Ukraine and its neighbor’s Western backers.
Girding for a lengthy war, the Kremlin is seeking a return to a level of control over shaping its citizens’ minds that the country hasn’t seen since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, say former Russian officials, current Western officials and Kremlin critics.
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Mr. Kiriyenko told the Russian officials the propaganda campaign went beyond the conflict in Ukraine. “We hope very much that the special military operation on the ground ends relatively quickly,” he said, using the Kremlin’s authorized language to describe the invasion. “But when it ends, the information war will continue…That’s the overarching war here.”
Just so, Mr. Kiriyenko.
That said, the Russian Federation Goliath finds itself unable to slay the Ukrainian Davids and their Spiritual Justice Warrior allies around the world!
Glory to Ukraine!
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