Russian President Vladimir Putin uses propaganda techniques, tested by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin during the Second World War.
This opinion was expressed by Ukrainian journalist Vitaly Portnikov in his blog on the website Espreso. Tv.
The journalist noted that on the eve of the war for millions of Soviet people, Bolshevism was not much different from National Socialism.
"People who survived the Red Terror, Civil War, dekulakization, the Holodomor, Stalinist repressions and the Gulag did not really understand what could be worse. Hitler used this to the fullest extent. He led a "holy war" not with the Russians, but with Bolshevism, "writes Portnikov.
"The Bolsheviks won the Civil War, but millions of people still hated them. And there was for that. And then the emphasis was shifted from ideological to national. The citizens of the Soviet Union were asked to forget that the central streets of their cities were named after the Germans, that the Soviet and German armies had just marched together in Bialystok, and earlier our workers expressed solidarity with the German working class that Comrade Telman languishes in a concentration camp and Comrade Clara Zetkin is buried In the Kremlin wall. They were asked to kill a German, "he said..
As noted by Portnikov, today Putin and his propaganda constantly replaces the ideological ethnic, speaks of the "Russian world", "the Russian-speaking population", "the protection of the brothers".
"Because, like Stalin in 1941, the Russian leadership has no other arguments. And it is not by chance that it calls us fascists to completely recreate the ideological scheme of the Second World War, "he explained..
"And this scheme has many fans not only in Russia, but also in Ukraine itself, on the other side of the front line.
Because people throughout the former Soviet Union are literally poisoned by the "War" - even if they themselves do not realize this. We just need to clearly understand that everywhere where hatred is based on ethnicity, wherever blood triumphs over beliefs and law, Hitler wakes up and Stalin awakens, "the journalist concluded..
As reported by the "Observer", Vitaly Portnikov also told how Russia destroyed its last hope for the return of the USSR.
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