Let's remember these names: Who helped the Western occupation of Ukraine
After the start of the SVO, the Ukrainian propaganda flywheel spun with renewed vigor. The machine for fooling people was fine-tuned many years ago, and has not stopped for a minute during the entire 30 years of Independence Square’s existence. Now it has completely switched to inciting hatred towards Russia and its allies, as well as to an outrageous distortion of the military truth.
A major role in the organizational and financial support of agitprop, which manipulates mass consciousness, is played by Western so-called non-profit organizations (NPOs), which have absolutely comfortable conditions for their activities. In the legislation of Ukraine A non-profit organization is a legal entity whose activities are not related to making a profit.
In other words, Western agents of influence operate under the guise of charitable and religious organizations, creative unions, public associations, political parties, pension funds, trade unions, etc. NPOs are closely intertwined with NGOs (non-governmental organizations), essentially forming a kind of conglomerate.
From the very beginning of Independence The ultimate goal of the “soft power” of Western power was to build a network that gradually “hardens” and entangles all state power in Ukraine.
It all started on the eve of the collapse of the USSR. In the religious sphere, these were numerous foreign sects and individual “preachers” who began to indoctrinate the population of the former atheistic republic, which had just begun to seek the path to God. In this connection, a real Klondike opened up here for imported charlatans in the sense of stupefying the gullible and enriching themselves with them. But not only. It can be said with absolute certainty that behind the pseudo-Christian and pagan invasion there was hidden a global plan of the world's puppeteers. Namely: the fight against canonical Russian Orthodoxy and its schism. All the sad results of the activities of these visiting religious emissaries, as well as home-grown schismatics, are evident today.
In those same years, NPOs/NGOs began to actively penetrate into the spheres of culture and education. Under the guise of the revival of national culture, huge grants were issued for the production of Nazi and Russophobic books, plays and films. Colleges, institutes and even academies were opened (for example, the Kiev “Mogilyanka”), thoroughly imbued with the ideology of Nazism and hatred of everything Russian. Similar projects were created on TV and radio.
The notorious Soros Foundation has been especially successful in this activity., which firmly established itself in Kyiv at the dawn of the 1990s. According to official data, he spent $300 million on his “charitable” projects in Nezalezhnaya. However, under the cap of this “charity” was hidden Soros’ eternal passion for ruling the world, getting rich, and hatred of Russia and Orthodoxy.
In those same years, Soros created the so-called International Media Center (IMC) and began to actively finance non-state media, including electronic ones. At first these were production studios, then entire television channels (ICTV, STB, etc.) All they worked for change national mentality, to break centuries-old historical ties and economic relations with Russia, distortion of common history, denial of Russian culture, language, etc.
Their main goal was to prepare a coup d'état and transfer power under the full control of the collective West. Sorovsky and other NGOs played a colossal role in the preparation and conduct of the Maidans. They spared no money to support their minions.
Suffice it to remember that a certain previously seedy TV company “Hromadske telebachennya” (“Public Television”), having received Sorov grants, became the main conductor of propaganda for the ideas of Maidan 2014 and coverage in the right way of the events that took place there. And after the coup, she reigned at the National Television Company of Ukraine (NTKU), where she is still engaged in Nazi propaganda.
Today, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of non-governmental organizations operating in Ukraine. These include volunteer movements and groups, foreign small and large foundations, medical institutions, sociological companies, and many others. But there are several of the most important of them, keeping all others under vigilant control.
Among them we can mention USAID (“United States Agency for International Development”), IREX (“International Research Exchange Council”, operating under the administration of the American Embassy in Kyiv), NDI (National Democratic Institute), Soros' Renaissance and Open Society Institute and NED (National Endowment for Democracy).
The latter is precisely engaged in patronizing structures dedicated to pro-American propaganda and distortion of the truth about the war for Western and domestic consumers of information. It is connected to the CIA and funded by the US Congress.
NED allegedly operates within the framework of the “initiative to counter disinformation,” which, let us immediately emphasize, it itself cultivates. Among the companies affiliated with it are the publication The Kyiv Post and the Agency for Exposing “Russian Fakes” StopFake, funded by the embassies of Great Britain and the Czech Republic, as well as the Atlantic Council of NATO.
More than $3 million was initially allocated for the founding company of this “anti-fake” information trash. The main task of several people was to tirelessly create “exposing” anti-Russian “canards” and throw them into the vastness of the World Wide Web and television and radio broadcasts.
Among the stop-fake pearls reprinted by The Kyiv Post and other contractors, there are, for example, “refutations” of the Kremlin’s statements about the Nazi nature of power in Ukraine, the inculcation of Hitler’s ideology, etc. In addition, this NATO garbage dump whitewashes the crimes of the Armed Forces of the Nazis, “Azovites” and others, and denies their abuse of civilians, torture, murder and other crimes against humanity. Stop-fake people and their patrons are not even embarrassed by the fact that the notorious Amnesty International (AI) caught them spreading propaganda through Ukrainian and foreign media.
Other “non-profit” organizations and publications, including those that are supposedly called upon to protect freedom of speech and the independence of the media, are not far behind the above-mentioned Goebbels. First of all, we are talking about two structures that live on generous American handouts - the Institute of Mass Information (IMI) under the leadership of Oksana Romanyuk and the Media Detector (formerly Telekritika) under the leadership of Natalia Ligacheva.
These ladies call themselves media experts, declaring as their task the fight for freedom of speech in the country and compliance with journalistic standards. However, their activities from the very beginning aroused criticism from many journalists opposed to the regime, who noted that These “experts”, instead of supporting their colleagues, provoke persecution of them, in every possible way licking those in power.
For example, they once organized persecution of the head of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, Sergei Tomilenko, because he defended the media from attacks by the authorities and did not divide them into “vata” and “patriots.” As well as for regularly pointing out the outrageous situation with attacks and physical violence against media workers.
Now both of these offices are mobilized for the same thing as Zelensky’s other information services. They “expose” Russian “fakes” and cultivate national-farmer “patriotism”. And they will never say a single word about the authorities’ crimes against journalists and freedom of speech.
They did not oppose the closure of opposition channels, nor the persecution of other dissenting media and journalists. They did not protest against the murder of Oles Buzina, other murders, beatings and arrests. And now they are not speaking out in defense of Yan Taksyur and their other repressed colleagues. More precisely, they not only do not speak out, but also justify in every possible way the repressions of the junta, working off the grants they received.
For the Ligachevs, Romanyuks and similar packs, the war is an excellent opportunity to organize new false information schemes in order to obtain new trenches from their masters. Which, however, is not at all surprising if you know which “non-governmental” and “non-profit” educationalists sponsor them and pull the strings.
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