A Propaganda Master Class
If you have ever wondered how a mature propaganda system works, Russia provides a masterclass. The loss of Syria is a severe blow. And let’s be honest, some Russian families lost family and friends there. So, this loss has to be justified, somehow.
And if there is one thing Russians are incredibly good at, it is creating objective conditions when all changes are always good, even the disastrous ones. So here you go, through the resistance:
Russia 1 reported that Moscow has fulfilled all its obligations to Syria and that everything is going according to plan🤦♂️ 🤡🤣
On Sunday evening, Russian propaganda decided how to present the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, which had cost hundreds of billions of rubles to support, to the Russian audience. The Vesti Nedeli program and the Vecherniy Vecher s Vladimirom Solovyovym show on Rossiya 1 quoted Vladimir Putin’s phrase from nine years ago, which, according to the hosts, anticipated what was happening in Syria. In addition, Solovyov said that Russia had fulfilled its obligations to Syria — having previously ensured Assad’s victory, and now by providing him and his family with asylum.
Details . The topic of Syria was the first in the issue of Vesti Nedeli. Having described what had happened in the last hours and drawn the attention of viewers to the fact that Russia had not…