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Russian Author Dmitry Glukhovsky On Ukraine: “Putin’s Propaganda Is Making My People Complicit In War Crimes” – Guest Column
23.03.2022 - 12:05 / deadline.com
Editors note: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had tragic consequences for the Ukrainian people, and the wider ramifications of the conflict are only beginning to be understood. As the West imposes economic sanctions on Russia, the country is facing a period of isolation unseen since the Cold War. Here, acclaimed Russian novelist and journalist Dmitry Glukhovsky, author of the sci-fi novel series Metro 2033, writes about how Russian propaganda has taken hold of his fellow countrymen. He is based in Europe. The column is translated from Russian by Marian Schwartz.
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Russia’s state-controlled media would have you believe that its army is conducting a special operation to de-Nazify Ukraine, liberating Kharkov, Mariupol, and Nikolaev from Nazi battalions. The operation is going according to plan, they say, and would already have been brought to a victorious conclusion had the Nazi fighters not taken civilians hostage. These Nazi fighters are blowing up apartment buildings and hospitals, along with Ukrainian women and children, so that they can blame the Russian troops for everything — because otherwise the flow of money and arms into the country from the West will stop.
And by the way, Russia did not attack Ukraine but was forced to make a preemptive strike because, six hours later, Ukraine would have attacked first. Additionally, Kyiv was developing an atomic bomb to use against Moscow, and in secret laboratories in Ukraine, Americans were creating weaponized coronavirus strains that would only affect Russians and be spread by migratory birds. And generally, Ukraine is nothing but a battlefield between Russia and the U.S. where the fate of the future world order is being decided.
How can anyone believe drivel that completely
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