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Disappointment? Something Else?
This text was posted on Telegram at Reverse Side of the Medal, and I am going to go through it for study because it speaks to the anger from pro-invasion forces within the Federation. No, I do not speak Russian, but Google translate works great. So consider this a nonexact translation, but good enough to get an impression.
text Reverse Side of the Medal May 31, 2022
📢 🤷♂️ The effectiveness of Kremlin propaganda is its own myth. She is not able to create an attractive image of the future, capable of inspiring a feat, Abbas Gallyamov, a political scientist and ex-speech writer of Putin, writes in a column for MO.
This is a screaming explanation as to why people are not dying to enlist and go die in Ukraine. This is as clear as day. This is on a site written by far-right mercenaries for far-right mercenaries. So they are indeed on the front lines and perhaps feel they are freer to grouse and complain. The short of it, is our propaganda, like our military, sucks.
It has long been noted that people are ready to shed their blood not so much for the sake of the present, but for the sake of the future; not so much guarding what they already have, but trying to get what they don’t have yet.
The mass heroism that the Ukrainians have demonstrated over the past three months speaks better than any…