Soup 184, May 22, 2023
Ukraine on Fire (Igor Lopatonok and Oliver Stone)
In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce a propaganda film Ukraine on Fire and its two main creators, Igor Lopatonok (@lopatonok) & Oliver Stone (@TheOliverStone). It’s best-known for falsely claiming the 2014 Revolution of Dignity to be a US/far-right-orchestrated coup d’État.
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There seems to be two driving forces in this documentary: director Lopatonok’s love for Russia and his hate for Ukraine, and Stone’s love for Putin and hate for the CIA.
At the beginning of the film, Lopatonok and Stone present Ukraine as a “treacherous country” that…
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At the beginning of the film, Lopatonok and Stone present Ukraine as a “treacherous country” that…
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…deportations of Crimean Tatars and “Russification” of the Donbas region.
More on the topic here:
And here:
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More on the topic here:
And here:
How Russia Russified the east…
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The film depicts the “crazy 1990s”, where the opportunistic oligarchs became extremely wealthy whereas the common folk had to struggle to get food, in a realistic way, but again fails to mention that the same happened in Russia and in most of the old Soviet countries.
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…b) done mostly to avoid war with Russia. More about NATO expansion here:
The film claims that “Ukraine has never been a united country”, and attempts to show the West as the “nationalist, Banderite” region, whereas the east and Crimea are …
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The film claims that “Ukraine has never been a united country”, and attempts to show the West as the “nationalist, Banderite” region, whereas the east and Crimea are …
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…the Surkov leaks and Glazyev tapes, as well as through revelations made by the Russo-Ukrainian politician, Oleg Tsaryov.
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Glazyev:
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Lopatonok and Stone are pushing the age-old “We have to avoid the new Cold War between the US and Russia to avoid a nuclear confrontation” narrative. As we now know, Putin has called all attempt to assist or aid Ukraine to defend itself an “escalation”, …
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The documentary seems to have three core (and false) narratives that are often seen touted by the Kremlin, too: 1) the CIA-backed, far-right forces are in power in Ukraine and shouldn’t be defended (read my debunk here: ), …
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