Ukrainian propaganda is bursting at the seams, coming into contact with reality
Have you ever thought about such a paradox: Ukraine seems to be at war with Russia, but hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens are fleeing from the advancing Ukrainian army not somewhere, but to the territory of the “aggressor”.
How can this be? But ask this question to the average viewer of some “1 + 1”. I'm sure he won't find any contradiction in this. After all, as Kiev propaganda convinces us, only “militants” and “terrorists” are fleeing to Russia. And civilians are “forced to relocate” along “humanitarian corridors” created for them by ATO forces to other regions of Ukraine.
So who are these hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees who have filled Russian cities? Militants? Terrorists? Or, after all, no matter what the official Ukrainian propaganda says, these are civilians who do not trust propaganda and see their enemies and a threat to their lives not at all in the actions of Russia. And the very fact of the presence of these refugees completely refutes the propaganda myth about “Russia the aggressor” attacking peaceful Ukraine.
Propaganda is bursting at the seams when it comes into contact with living reality. Those gullible residents of Donbass who nevertheless believed the stories about the Russian threat and moved to Ukraine are faced with a completely unfriendly attitude there.
Firstly, these people are a priori seen, if not as hidden “terrorists,” then as their potential accomplices. The SBU is working with refugees, identifying their possible connection with the “separatists.” But even if a person has passed the first loyalty check, he still remains registered as a potentially suspicious element.
Why? Yes, at least because of his Russian culture, because of his native Russian language and because of his pro-Russian sentiments. Well, the residents of Donbass do not see Russia as an enemy, just as they are not convinced by nationalist agitprop, for which everything that is closer to Russia and speaks Russian is hostile.
A remarkable story happened in the Cherkassy region, when it became clear that the influx of “alien” and “moscopal” elements threatens the spread of “undesirable” ideas among local residents, who are also not Russophobes of the seventh generation, but rather neophyte Russophobes, and this Russophobia needs constant propaganda feeding and lubrication.
The governor of Cherkasy region publicly stated the need to deport migrants with pro-Russian sentiments outside the region. Here's grandma and cultural diversity. Here's your grandmother, and a “united country”. It turned out that we live in a segregated society, where there are first- and second-class people. Moreover, the latter need to be corrected and reforged into “real” Ukrainians according to nationalist patterns.
And what about the second wave of Donbassophobia, launched now in the media? People in other regions are already being turned against refugees. Respectable uncles and aunts explain that “there are a lot of rednecks” who “don’t want to work”, and that the appearance of refugees from Donbass is associated with an increase in crime in Kyiv. That among the arriving “Lugandons” there may be hidden terrorists and separatists, and therefore you need to keep an eye out for them. That hidden militants are infiltrating Ukraine under the guise of refugees. Etc.
Poorly hidden hatred towards the residents of Donbass, and more broadly, towards everything connected with Russia, breaks out in the most unexpected places, such as posts on social networks. When a seemingly intelligent young lady from the capital writes something like this: “Why are most of my friends morons from Lugansk?” And a journalist invited to the Hromadske TV studio echoes her proposal to “kill one and a half million unnecessary people.” And a professor at one of the Kyiv universities writes in all seriousness that from now on Russians for Ukrainians have ceased to be people, but have become something like cockroaches.
This entire remake of the well-known social-racist campaign of 2004 (remember, “don’t piss in the entrance, you’re not from Donetsk”) is intended to justify even greater tightening of the screws and an attack on the rights and freedoms of citizens.
So, they are already searched at the entrance and exit from airports. And traffic cops received the right to stop and search almost any vehicle “in connection with the increasing incidence of terrorist attacks.”
I'm not even talking about the fact that people with Donbass registration or owners of cars with Lugansk or Donetsk license plates are beginning to feel like second-class citizens in Ukraine, like Turks in Germany or Tajik illegal immigrants in Moscow.
Do you think this is the path that will lead to the construction of the “united country” that “patriots” love to talk about? It seems to me that before our eyes, at Stakhanov’s pace, another “wall” is being built, in addition to the existing ones, dividing Ukrainians already divided by hatred and imposed prejudices.
After all, by dividing, it is easier to rule.
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