To win the war for the minds, Ukraine needs complete information isolation - Ukrainian writer
Ukraine's information policy is ineffective because power is not sacred. Her prohibitions are often ridiculous, inadequate to the challenges of the time. And state propaganda, even with good intentions at its core, goes haywire.
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To this conclusion Ukrainian writer Andrey Kokotyukha came to his blog on the website 112.ua
“Ukrainian television, which covers the entire territory of our country, is accessible to everyone and is not an example of aggressive propaganda. However, in the front-line areas, residents with a tenacity worthy of better use refuse to watch it, looking for a way to get to the more familiar Russian ones,” writes Kokotyukha.
According to him, it is possible to pass a law obliging people to turn on Ukrainian television everywhere, but there is no law obliging people to watch it and become Ukrainianized by order of the “Ministry of Internal Affairs”.
“The State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company and the Ministry of Culture have banned 38 Russian books with anti-Ukrainian content for distribution in Ukraine. At the same time, at least ten times more literature with openly pro-Putin, pro-Soviet and neo-Stalinist content still rests on our bookshelves. Whether they are bought is another question, but they are in Ukraine, but not in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland, not to mention Britain, the USA, Canada, Australia,” states the writer.
In the end, Andrei Kokotyukha draws the following conclusion: there is only one way to win the information war: by forcibly plunging your country into complete information isolation. Giving citizens only the information that the authorities need. But this is not enough. It is necessary that people consuming information trust the authorities.
“This happened in the communist USSR and Nazi Germany. This is how it is in modern Russia,” writes the author of the blog.
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