In philosophy, there is a special term " A wonderful example of a simulacrum is the current glorification by Russian propaganda of its soldiers, which imitates the Soviet propaganda heroic epic about the Patriotic War..

One of the pillars of Russian propaganda is the " Since childhood, this saga has been programming Russians for the necessary system of thinking, where there is a large state that has defeated evil, and someone else only envy and wants to return evil, that is, is the very evil. Therefore, Russia believes that it has the right to deal with evil as it wants, because the truth is on its side..

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This cult of war replaces the religion that unites all faiths. To support him, the Kremlin romanticized World War II for years.. However, now Moscow has begun to cultivate a new war, which should become something that will unite a new generation of Buryats, Dagestanis or residents of St. Petersburg.. What the Second World War was for the inhabitants of the USSR, despite the fact that this war is of an aggressive nature.

How to Create a Pantheon of Heroes When They're Invaders.

Using the example of the Heroes of Operation Z project, in which supposedly heroic deeds of Russian army soldiers during the invasion of Ukraine are published, let's analyze how it works. The project itself tells about real people. But there are a few "

In the description of their feat, there is no information about the place of the event, as well as about the military unit and the date when it happened.. Everything is done so that journalists cannot verify the authenticity of the story..

Most of the videos do not contain information about who the heroes of the operation are fighting.. It would be strange to glorify the occupiers who are fighting in another country. Therefore, in the description of their actions, the Ukrainian army is called “Nazis” and “militants” or simply “enemy”. Some videos don't even mention the word "

Most of the exploits are created according to the Soviet model of propaganda and are clearly exaggerated. At the same time, we are talking about a low-quality duplicate, because all these actions have real prototypes in Soviet history.. But the style of warfare has changed, and now the description of such actions looks like a mockery of Soviet soldiers..

Specific examples One of the heroes of the war most promoted by Soviet agitprop is pilot Alexei Maresyev, who, after his plane was shot down and his feet were crushed during landing, according to legend, crawled to his positions for 18 days.

Now there is a new story of Alexei Likhanov. Although he is not a pilot, but, according to legend, he was wounded and returned to his positions for 12 days with two grenades in his hands. Why Aleksey was holding grenades in his hands all this time, it is not known how and where this happened, and how he could go deep into the defense during the offensive of his troops, so that he could crawl back for 12 days.

An equally famous example of the Soviet epic is the signalman Matvey Putilov, who died in the battle for Stalingrad.. According to legend, in order to ensure communication, being surrounded, he squeezed the cable with his teeth - this is how they found him dead..

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Considering that modern troops do not need cables to provide communications, the Russians decided to take quantity, not quality.. Russian propaganda created Sergeant Yan Volkov, who for some reason was left alone with the radio communication station and came under mortar fire. Then he, wounded, continued to set it up under shelling, and "

Khusein Gadaev allegedly did something similar. His communications battalion got into an unequal battle, and during it the lieutenant gave orders to ensure communications until he lost consciousness. In general, this story is more evidence of the competence of Hussein's deputies, nevertheless, he is in the pantheon of new heroes.

Yevstafiy Anisimov is a hero of the Soviet Union, because during the liberation of Belarus from the German invaders he cleared the bridge. According to legend, he did this under constant enemy fire..

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Russian propaganda went further and created the story of Kirill Balagansky, who allegedly cleared two bridges under bullets at once. Ukraine is not even mentioned in his video, because the Russian agitprop decided not to emphasize once again that Kirill, unlike Anisimov, is an invader.

Hero of the USSR Pavel Khvostov, on the contrary, built a bridge across the Dnieper. Under the bullets, his group was able to build a pontoon crossing and ensure the further advance of the Soviet troops.. Khvostov himself was wounded during the construction of the crossing.

The Russians have their own new story for this - Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Garanin also commanded the construction of a pontoon crossing under enemy fire. Which enemy and during the crossing of which river is not specified.

However, it is proudly noted that thanks to the crossing of an unnamed river, Russian troops continued to advance in order to provide humanitarian assistance to an unknown settlement on the other side.. Although, probably, the inhabitants of this unknown village would not have needed humanitarian assistance if the occupier Garanin and his team had not invaded another country.

Now for the general examples..

In the list of new " For example, Arkady Smolnikov saved a thousand wounded after "

All these stories duplicate many stories of doctors of the " In all cases, the main thing is that the place of the event has not been established.. Even the video of the evacuation will not be shown to you.

In general, the list contains a lot of propaganda cliches: soldiers who “were the first to notice the enemy” (during the offensive), pilots who covered others with their aircraft (like the Soviet pilot Viktor Talalikhin), those who shot down a “flock of bayraktars”, repulsed volleys of MLRS " When the propagandists ran out of imagination, people who simply died or “almost died” were added to the list (“Ensign Arsalan Munkuev almost died”).

What is the result.

Russian propaganda easily devalues \u200b\u200bthe heroes of World War II, rewriting their stories. As mentioned above, the war in the Russian Federation is a religion. Even if a Russian does not actively support the war (he is an “atheist”), his morality is still shaped by this religion, he will celebrate military holidays and will live the ethics of war, where there is evil and martyrs.

It’s just that now Moscow is giving birth to a new cult with new heroes, in fact, a “new testament” of war, a kind of “gospel from Putin”. In such an information flow, Russians will not be able to draw conclusions from the war, because it is being romanticized again.

Thus, this war will not discourage the Russians from continuing to fight, and after Ukraine, Russia will prepare for a new war.. And not necessarily against Ukraine, because the very essence of the war as such. It is easy to create an enemy in such a paradigm of thinking..

So the task of Ukraine and the allies is to make sure that Russia is deprived of resources and physically unable to continue the war, which is exactly what is happening now..

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