The Kremlin is cutting back on the use of the term “denazification” because most Russians don’t understand it, Project reports, citing a senior media manager and a sociologist and political strategists close to the Kremlin..
Speaking about the start of the “special operation” (full-scale war) on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the “demilitarization” and “denazification” of Ukraine his goals.
“Since the statement was prepared in an atmosphere of secrecy, the terms used did not have time to be worked out by specialists. And Russian propagandists had to endlessly repeat about " Almost immediately it turned out that the term was unsuccessful, ”the journalistic investigation says..
About a week after the start of the war, Kremlin sociologists conducted closed telephone opinion polls, including a question about the attitude of Russians to the main theses of propaganda.. Respondents could not really explain the term " In addition, it was difficult for people to even pronounce this word..
“After that, we started a mess: we were looking for new words, but we couldn’t find anything successful,” complains a source close to the Kremlin.
As a result, the authorities decided to drastically reduce the use of the word “denazification” on the air, but it was impossible to completely abandon it, because this “goal” was announced by the president.
For example, in the first issue of the Vesti Nedeli propaganda program after the start of the war, host Dmitry Kiselev explained the meaning of “denazification” for at least seven minutes.. But already in the April episodes, he either did not use the term at all, or did it once during the entire time of the broadcast..
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