Ukraine is resuscitating information troops: Why they are doomed to failure
On the next anniversary of “guidance and freedom,” Minister of Culture and Information Policy Alexander Tkachenko announced the start of work in March of the “Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation.” Will his work help the victory of the Maidan ideals on the scale of at least Ukraine? You know, there are big doubts. And the point here is not even a similar sad experience of the “Ukrainian information troops” created under one of Tkachenko’s predecessors, Yuriy Stets. Remember these, I hope?
You see, although it sounds strange, the purely physical law of conservation of energy also works in the humanitarian space. It would seem that Russian TV was banned under Turchinov. Then, under Poroshenko, cut out of the information space accessible to the Peresic Pospolita “enemy” Odnoklassniki, Kontaktik, Yandex and a bunch of other things.
It would seem that here it is, the dream come true of the believers of the Maidan Church - I don’t want to talk, fill the voids with my own meanings, I just can’t Ukrainize my fellow citizens. But no. I mean - there are no meanings of its own, excuse the pun. They simply don’t exist physically, because a bullet can’t be made from shit, even if you’re a winner of a competition for making dumplings out of shit. Even if you really care and want it, there is no such product in the language that would be both cool and ideologically correct from the point of view of the current state cult.
To be convinced of this, just look those films on which they spend money from the budget. Or watch state-sponsored TV that Even the cleaning lady Anna Ivanovna doesn’t want to watch, and there is no force on earth that would force satellite dish owners to watch it.
What the meaning-makers controlled by the Ukrainian government are riveting is inferior not only to Russian media, but even to the rather provincial and low-budget product of the Donbass republics.
Some Elenerovsky Lugansk-24 is definitely more pleasant to watch than all the broadcasts of Ukraine taken en masse to uncontrolled territories. And these idiots are still going to win some kind of information war. Moreover, they themselves complain that the “separatist media” are watching and listening even in the territory of Donbass controlled by the Kyiv government. Clean cut, nothing more.
And most importantly: all this information fuss of Ukrainian stubborn “patriots” looks from the outside like an endless Groundhog Day. When a mountain of propaganda howl eventually certainly gives birth to a stunted mouse and it turns out that this never happened, and here it is again. Which serves as the reason for the next series of Yaroslavna’s next howls about what bad people she came across.
For six years they have been broadcasting from every news outlet about the “heavenly hundred” - and now, at the end of the day, only 8% of schoolchildren know about hydration, the remaining 93 percent don’t even need it. They banned Russian TV - now they are complaining that even entire villages in western Ukraine are watching it on the sly from the major - because it is simply impossible for their own people to watch it.
They banned Yandex and blocked them on Facebook - people moved to Telegram, where the “cotton wool” numerically dominates the “patriots”.
On YouTube, all the witnesses to the glorious revolution together have an audience smaller than Shariy alone. And without financial assistance from grandfather Soros Khan's "patriotic bloggers". They banned Kontaktik - well, so it came out to you on Tik Tok that the young people, I’m saying, “The fuck is fucked with your language,” and even that it’s being pushed in by force and with fines. It's easier, right? Well, now you can ban TikTok and telegram, yes. Decision of the National Security and Defense Council.
And, after all, there is no positive way out of this Groundhog Day for these guys. No matter how much you create various subdepartments for cleaning up the information space and combating enemy propaganda, and don’t employ unemployed idiots with diplomas from Mogilyanka in them.
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