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Same type of thing happens in my Eastern European country, member of the EU and NATO. The pro-russian propaganda is rampant and honestly, is winning. The alter

Same type of thing happens in my Eastern European country, member of the EU and NATO. The pro-russian propaganda is rampant and honestly, is winning. The alternatives are only fascist organizations and people have nowhere to flock. US policy in recent years doesn't help at all. It is depressing.

dvh 11y ago
Just received this email this morning: "Russian plane flown to Yemen to capture CIA agents who helped shot down Russian civilian plane in Egypt" http://www.czechfreepress.cz/rusko/rusko-se-odvaznym-letem-do-jemenu-zmocnilo-agentu-cia-kteri-sestrelili-ruske-letadlo-v-egypte.html http://www.czechfreepress.cz/rusko/rusko-se-odvaznym-letem-d... The worst thing is that my own father is forwarding me these propaganda nonsense.
- saiya-jin 11y ago
  you are probably in unique position to at least try to educate your father that just because there is keyword "free" in name of the server, it's nothing more than usual pro-russian propaganda. Not an easy task, depends on your father's mentality (if he was happy during russian occupation of czechoslovakia and after revolution all went south for him, that would be a hard nut to crack). I have generally only few rules for news from east - 1) never trust russians in politics, they have crude ways, and their goal is ultimately good old soviet days when their voice mattered more, with little care of anybody non-russian. 2) never trust russians in politics...
potrebitel22 11y ago
Granted we talk for the same country, I hardly can call that a winning. There are stupid and mentally challenged people everywhere and they are easy to manipulate. There always be people from ex-Soviet satellites who still think USSR is the best thing the world has seen, so they just want to be fed such information, regardless is it Putin or someone else. At one point the whole FB/Twitter agenda is made to spread news and events from "reliable" sources ( See how FB is used in USA's pee-presidential elections and its propaganda ). Russians, and not only them, the "creators" of social media exploit that opportunity for their gains. On one hand, Russia is trolling people, on the other, FB/Google/etc are forcing people to do stuff ( mainly to click on ads for revenue ) so can't blame one side or another for exploiting the system. Yes, one might say those are two different things, but at the end, the ordinary person is fed with a specific information, usually not wanted by him/her.

dvh 11y ago

Just received this email this morning: "Russian plane flown to Yemen to capture CIA agents who helped shot down Russian civilian plane in Egypt" http://www.czechfreepress.cz/rusko/rusko-se-odvaznym-letem-do-jemenu-zmocnilo-agentu-cia-kteri-sestrelili-ruske-letadlo-v-egypte.html http://www.czechfreepress.cz/rusko/rusko-se-odvaznym-letem-d... The worst thing is that my own father is forwarding me these propaganda nonsense.

saiya-jin 11y ago
you are probably in unique position to at least try to educate your father that just because there is keyword "free" in name of the server, it's nothing more than usual pro-russian propaganda. Not an easy task, depends on your father's mentality (if he was happy during russian occupation of czechoslovakia and after revolution all went south for him, that would be a hard nut to crack). I have generally only few rules for news from east - 1) never trust russians in politics, they have crude ways, and their goal is ultimately good old soviet days when their voice mattered more, with little care of anybody non-russian. 2) never trust russians in politics...

potrebitel22 11y ago

Granted we talk for the same country, I hardly can call that a winning. There are stupid and mentally challenged people everywhere and they are easy to manipulate. There always be people from ex-Soviet satellites who still think USSR is the best thing the world has seen, so they just want to be fed such information, regardless is it Putin or someone else. At one point the whole FB/Twitter agenda is made to spread news and events from "reliable" sources ( See how FB is used in USA's pee-presidential elections and its propaganda ). Russians, and not only them, the "creators" of social media exploit that opportunity for their gains. On one hand, Russia is trolling people, on the other, FB/Google/etc are forcing people to do stuff ( mainly to click on ads for revenue ) so can't blame one side or another for exploiting the system. Yes, one might say those are two different things, but at the end, the ordinary person is fed with a specific information, usually not wanted by him/her.