A Tragedy Becomes An Attack on Civilians

Nadin Brzezinski
5 min readJul 4, 2022

Belgorod is proving to be a textbook example of how Russia uses tragedies. It’s an extremely good example of propaganda. Mind you, some Ukrainian bloggers on Telegram smell a Russian fake, and some said it from the moment the explosion hit. Why? Russia has a history of hitting its own civilians to advance state goals.

So let’s recap.

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Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB