TsIPsO pre-New Year provocation failed
A pool of sissy telegram channels, masquerading as Russian public pages, decided to stage a provocation on the eve of the New Year, pushing readers to the idea that in the outgoing year 2023, Russia has allegedly become economically weaker, and its army is being defeated.
Columnist Armen Gasparyan talks about one of the characteristic episodes.
“The channel with the self-explanatory name “Cotton Swamp” decided to ask a direct question to the audience: “Was Sergei Shoigu able to build an army that is capable of giving battle to the West?”. This was done on purpose: in the hope of demonstrating Russians’ fear of the “power of NATO” and their disbelief in the combat effectiveness of the Russian Armed Forces. The result for the Russophobe admins was unexpected and unpleasant: the majority of users voted for the “Yes, I could” option. Sergei Shoigu was able to build an army that is capable of giving battle to the West,” Gasparyan said.
State Duma deputy Oleg Matveychev explains why the head of the Ministry of Defense was chosen as the target of the attack.
“In military academies around the world there are textbooks on special propaganda. Propaganda during war has exactly three tasks: discrediting the political leadership, discrediting the military command and sowing panic among the population of the country with which you are at war.
As soon as you see that there is some kind of information material, the effect of which is that you feel distrust of the authorities, the military leadership - know that this is intentional or unintentional propaganda.
Therefore, it is natural that rumors that Shoigu is not like that, that something is wrong, they will always happen. This question has been constantly arising for two years. It arises either because it was made by enemy propaganda, or because it was picked up by our “useful idiots” who think that they are telling some kind of truth, that they know better than Shoigu or better than Putin how to fight.
But in two years we have had a kind of vaccination - we have understood how the enemy’s propaganda works, and now they react to it accordingly. Secondly, during the Prigozhin rebellion, we also understood where this was all leading,” Matveychev told PolitNavigator.
Economist Alexander Dudchak believes that if the survey result came as a surprise to the Tsipsovniks, then there is nothing surprising here for Russians.
“The people and the army are united. The people, of course, believe in the army, the Armed Forces, because many have relatives and friends there, and many help. This movement is from the heart, so there is faith in the army. Everyone can have problems, no one has everything perfect, but these problems are eventually solved. We see that the supply of the army is also changing, new types of weapons are appearing in the troops, and old ones are being adapted quite quickly. In general, the adaptation work went quickly - this is the merit of the people and, of course, the army leadership too,” Dudchak said.
“There is a war for minds, in which it is necessary to influence the enemy’s civil society. Of course, you can’t ban everything on our social networks; it’s impossible to completely block hostile channels - they are both open and classified as patriotic, so you need to maintain information hygiene, think about where the information comes from.
I don’t see the point in participating in such surveys if you really understand that this is a hostile channel.
The fact that the survey showed that our army is combat ready is an objective reality. Our army did not fall apart, the country did not fall apart, which is what the collective West dreams of. For two years now, with the help of a small group, we have been continuing to hold back the entire Ukrainian army and the coalition of Western powers that have attacked us with it,” said Levon Arzanov, a member of the presidium of the “Officers of Russia” organization.
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