Kiev political strategist: Russian propaganda provoked Donbass to attack peaceful Maidan activists and Banderaites
Throughout the 25 years of Ukraine’s independence until the Maidan in 2014, Russia promoted hostile narratives to the southeast of the country and Crimea. As a result, this led to the fact that the Russian regions refused to accept Bandera’s coup and rejected further stay as part of an independent entity.
Ukrainian political strategist, expert at the AM&PM Center for Combating Information Aggressions Alexander Kurban stated this at a press conference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Activation of psychological attitudes is such a means. How it works with an example. Over the 25 years of Ukraine’s existence until the start of Russian aggression, Russia constantly threw into our information space, especially in the East of Ukraine, in the Crimea, in the South of Ukraine, such mental attitudes as the need to protect the Russian language, the need to be friends with Russia, the need to fight against NATO and so on.
They constantly emphasized this in parliamentary programs, in the pro-Russian media, they constantly frightened the East of Ukraine that there were some mythical Banderaites, Westerners who would come and spread rot. At a certain moment, all these messages go to the subconscious, accumulate, become part of our subconscious, and then at a certain moment they detonate, they explode, and accordingly form a certain emotional state.
This is exactly how, in 2014, these installations on language, on Bandera’s followers, exploded and the population of the South and East of Ukraine was frightened by the “Right Sector”, by Bandera’s supporters who would come and kill them, here it flared up in the subconscious. All these things, fears, were laid down over the years, and that’s how it worked,” Kurban explained.
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