On the episode of The Russia House, I discuss the state of journalism in Russia with Anatoly Kuzichev, the host of the Vremya Pokazhet (Time Will Show) talk-show on Channel One and the Secretary of the Union of Journalists of Russia.
To be clear: Russians are a GREAT people. The history of Russia (the Russian Empires, The Soviet Union and now in a Federation) is almost the history of the whole world. Definitely a big part of it. Its culture has influenced the world for sure.
The way 'the West' is portraying Russians is nothing less then shameful and discraceful. And dangerous. In 'the West' a political en ideological clique has captured the MS media and most of journalism. Also education has fallen prey to these rogue and radical neo-liberal neo-cons. 'Cons' stands for conservatives but it can also mean Con, as in lying, deceiving. Thats what is going on in 'the West' now.
Russia is at the centre of the world if you look at it geographically. It has a advanced and very cultured population, truly multi racial and multi ethnic. The War crazy clique in 'the West' knows this and have no other means then to beat the war drums. Which is totally insane. Especially with the weapons mankind has now.
I hope -as a European- that cooler heads will prevail in Europe and the public at large will finally get it and rid itself of these warmongers.
Russia does not have a Hollywood because Russia does not have enough lying perverts to make a Hollywood. And not enough stupid and perverted people to watch that kind of crap output.
Russia has a wonderful film history, older than that of the USA and the West, and immeasurably better. My wife and I have been watching Mosfilm, Lenfilm and Sovietmoviesonline.com for decades and they are remarkable, intelligent and truthful examples of the finest in world Cinema. There are thousands of them!
Anyone can do what we did and learn the truth. Most Westerners have been made frankly too stupid to read subtitles and to dull-witted to recognize the truth. Hollywood is perfect for them because they have succumbed to lies and Hollywood has nothing to do with reality but only with lies... lies about history, people, politics, psychology human relations...in short, lies about reality itself. Russia has finally understood that the West cannot be redeemed.
We can no longer watch 99% of Western cinema because it is not merely crap, but crap larded with lies and perversion.
Propaganda is the distortion of the truth - for political purposes - because distorting the truth for other reasons is generally not called propaganda. 90% of Western media is propaganda regarding Russia. It has been for a century, and Westerners do not know it because it is the orthodoxy and believe it as a religion. All this because of the Russian Revolution, that the West, the English speaking world, mainly, has not forgiven because, like the French Revolution, it threatened the old colonial and aristocratic order. Without the USSR, one wonders what the world would be today. Would we have this level of equality we enjoy today? I doubt it. The Nazi further threatened the freedom of the people under their masters. After studying the part of history we were not told in the West, I realized that the Western powers (England and France) did not stop the Nazis because they thought they would destroy the USSR. Fortunately it was the USSR that destroyed the Nazis. And (someone said...), the West has never forgiven the Russians for that, because it has put an end to the old aristocratic and colonial world, which has relentlessly spread propaganda to discredit the USSR. For the last 35 years Russia has tried to reverse this view and rejoin Europe, while the US thought they had finally defeated Russia... until Putin decided otherwise, and, as you express so emotionally, Scott - it made me cry - the Russians became proud again of being Russians. We are now in the post "near apocalypse" that this aim to destroy Russia threatened us with, and with the help of men and women of goodwill, the United States and Russia will join the multipolar world of the future. There's no other way. Changes will have to occur at the top, but the people are already changing ahead of them and will elect leaders that promote peace and cooperation rather than propagandize war and distrust.
Russia's own version of Mark Chrispin Miller, US & Global Professor of Propaganda. The truth about propaganda is also propaganda. So, yes, propaganda can become either merely dubious or extremist blatantly false information propagation of nonsense, much of it very dangerous indeed. Rather like what today comes routinely out of the US POTUS's infantile mouth.
This interview brough tears in my eyes. For too long I have believed the lies about Russia because this is how it was presented to me in "news". But it was lies and nothing but lies.
I do my best to encourage people to lift onto meta-level and observe details. This is how my eyes opened.
Russia is on a good path. Telling the truth is the best long-term strategy. In my language, there is a saying: A lie has short legs. Every lie gets exposed eventually. This is a basic law of universe.
I will do all I can to spread the proclamation of truth. Lies of Western empire pose existential threat to us - they are meant to drag us, Europeans, into WWIII. No pasaran! No way! People fight, this is about our own existence!
To be clear: Russians are a GREAT people. The history of Russia (the Russian Empires, The Soviet Union and now in a Federation) is almost the history of the whole world. Definitely a big part of it. Its culture has influenced the world for sure.
The way 'the West' is portraying Russians is nothing less then shameful and discraceful. And dangerous. In 'the West' a political en ideological clique has captured the MS media and most of journalism. Also education has fallen prey to these rogue and radical neo-liberal neo-cons. 'Cons' stands for conservatives but it can also mean Con, as in lying, deceiving. Thats what is going on in 'the West' now.
Russia is at the centre of the world if you look at it geographically. It has a advanced and very cultured population, truly multi racial and multi ethnic. The War crazy clique in 'the West' knows this and have no other means then to beat the war drums. Which is totally insane. Especially with the weapons mankind has now.
I hope -as a European- that cooler heads will prevail in Europe and the public at large will finally get it and rid itself of these warmongers.
Thank you for this interesting interview!
Russia does not have a Hollywood because Russia does not have enough lying perverts to make a Hollywood. And not enough stupid and perverted people to watch that kind of crap output.
Russia has a wonderful film history, older than that of the USA and the West, and immeasurably better. My wife and I have been watching Mosfilm, Lenfilm and Sovietmoviesonline.com for decades and they are remarkable, intelligent and truthful examples of the finest in world Cinema. There are thousands of them!
Anyone can do what we did and learn the truth. Most Westerners have been made frankly too stupid to read subtitles and to dull-witted to recognize the truth. Hollywood is perfect for them because they have succumbed to lies and Hollywood has nothing to do with reality but only with lies... lies about history, people, politics, psychology human relations...in short, lies about reality itself. Russia has finally understood that the West cannot be redeemed.
We can no longer watch 99% of Western cinema because it is not merely crap, but crap larded with lies and perversion.
Propaganda is the distortion of the truth - for political purposes - because distorting the truth for other reasons is generally not called propaganda. 90% of Western media is propaganda regarding Russia. It has been for a century, and Westerners do not know it because it is the orthodoxy and believe it as a religion. All this because of the Russian Revolution, that the West, the English speaking world, mainly, has not forgiven because, like the French Revolution, it threatened the old colonial and aristocratic order. Without the USSR, one wonders what the world would be today. Would we have this level of equality we enjoy today? I doubt it. The Nazi further threatened the freedom of the people under their masters. After studying the part of history we were not told in the West, I realized that the Western powers (England and France) did not stop the Nazis because they thought they would destroy the USSR. Fortunately it was the USSR that destroyed the Nazis. And (someone said...), the West has never forgiven the Russians for that, because it has put an end to the old aristocratic and colonial world, which has relentlessly spread propaganda to discredit the USSR. For the last 35 years Russia has tried to reverse this view and rejoin Europe, while the US thought they had finally defeated Russia... until Putin decided otherwise, and, as you express so emotionally, Scott - it made me cry - the Russians became proud again of being Russians. We are now in the post "near apocalypse" that this aim to destroy Russia threatened us with, and with the help of men and women of goodwill, the United States and Russia will join the multipolar world of the future. There's no other way. Changes will have to occur at the top, but the people are already changing ahead of them and will elect leaders that promote peace and cooperation rather than propagandize war and distrust.
Russia's own version of Mark Chrispin Miller, US & Global Professor of Propaganda. The truth about propaganda is also propaganda. So, yes, propaganda can become either merely dubious or extremist blatantly false information propagation of nonsense, much of it very dangerous indeed. Rather like what today comes routinely out of the US POTUS's infantile mouth.
This interview brough tears in my eyes. For too long I have believed the lies about Russia because this is how it was presented to me in "news". But it was lies and nothing but lies.
I do my best to encourage people to lift onto meta-level and observe details. This is how my eyes opened.
Russia is on a good path. Telling the truth is the best long-term strategy. In my language, there is a saying: A lie has short legs. Every lie gets exposed eventually. This is a basic law of universe.
I will do all I can to spread the proclamation of truth. Lies of Western empire pose existential threat to us - they are meant to drag us, Europeans, into WWIII. No pasaran! No way! People fight, this is about our own existence!
And when I initially saw the title of this post, I was hoping and praying to Gaia it would be a brilliant ode to Paul Revere!
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