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Chris Snow at Medium exposes Russian propaganda, means and ends.  Excerpt:

Orwell wrote the following about fascism in 1936:

“If you pretend that it is merely an aberration which will presently pass off of its own accord, you are dreaming a dream from which you will awake when somebody coshes you with a rubber truncheon” George Orwell

Russian propaganda plays with a fundamental truth about human nature: nearly all human beings have an extremely intermittent grasp of reality.

Only those things that illustrate their own interests and ideas are real to them; other things which are, in fact, equally real, appear to most humans as abstractions. This is horrifying when we think about this in more detail.

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Russian Propaganda

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1) It is questioning truth itself. It says that such a thing doesn’t exist. Everything has two sides. Nothing is real, and there is no right or wrong.

2) It gets rid of consistency and sends out mixed messages until its consumers get lost in the sheer complexity of information that is thrown at them.

3) It has a priority on volume and quantity. The goal is to flood the information space with as many things as possible. It tries to find out what sticks by the sheer volume of the ideas that are floated.

4) It takes what is already interesting for you, and then it expands from there to get you interested in the topics the makers of the propaganda want you to be interested in.

5) It works with the concept of: “Learned helplessness. Here are some examples for this: “The sanctions do not work” “Russia won already” “It is useless to protest, it won’t work the state is too strong” “Don’t help Ukraine it will collapse” “Don’t send more aid the winner is already decided” “Russia cannot be defeated it is too strong and powerful” “vaccines don’t work”

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Conclusion

Russian propaganda has actively supported centuries of dehumanization. Communism, Stalin, the Gulag, was an application of Marxism. Leninism. It was also an extension of Russian political culture.

For all Russian governments, past, present, and very probably future; individuals do NOT exist. They are just pawns, only allowed to exist to serve the cartel in power, and that cartel has a natural right of life or death over its subjects….

Glory to Ukraine!