Soup 121, March 10, 2023
Russian narratives
In today’s #vatniksoup and another edition of “You pronounced this nonsense, not me”, I’ll go through some of the most common pro-Russian claims and tropes. I have discussed these in previous soups, but I feel like this type of general collection would be a helpful resource.
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As many of you know, the Kremlin and other pro-Russian propagandists like to repeat the same old lies over and over again. This is part of the “Firehose of Falsehood” system that they have been using at least since 2013, probably even longer:
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Russian information operations
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2) “Ukraine is ran by Nazis” – The far-right party, “Svoboda” got around 2% of the total vote, and didn’t get any representatives to Verkhovna Rada.Most “evidence” for Ukrainian Nazis are anecdotal, and the far-right Azov Battalion has been disbanded:
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4) “Ukraine broke the Minsk agreement” – Ukraine and Russia both did, and the whole thing wasn’t really going to work anyway. Neil Abrams (@neil_abrams) have written extensively about this topic, check his thread here:
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He also tried to fill the Donbas Oblast with Russian miners and other workers, and denied local Ukrainians of their culture and language.
Second, no Russians are being oppressed, it’s just a story developed by the Kremlin and by Vladislav Surkov:
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Second, no Russians are being oppressed, it’s just a story developed by the Kremlin and by Vladislav Surkov:
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Even if he did mean it and we follow this logic, Putin should retreat from Crimea because in 2008 he said that it is part of Ukraine – just watch this interview. More about NATO expansion here:
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