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The West was first in using "fake news": there were radio stations broadcasting western propaganda in Russian. When Soviet Union collapsed, the volume of propag

The West was first in using "fake news": there were radio stations broadcasting western propaganda in Russian. When Soviet Union collapsed, the volume of propaganda increased by several orders. And it continue to this day via internet. I have no other explanation to a never ending flurry of articles in social networks and forums that we Russians: 1) evil people dreaming of conquering every country on this planet (this contradicts history and common sense but who cares) 2) we're "genetic garbage" 3) we didn't win in WW2, we just plundered Germany and raped German women 4) it would be better if we surrendered to Germany in WW2 5) we're dumb aggressive people and all our inventions were stolen from the west scientists Etc etc. I see articles with all these points and more every day on Facebook. Who writes and disseminate them?..

chlvsl 8y ago
And if I share an opinion that's not the norm, I'm an "evil russian".
Fins 8y ago
As if Russian-language forums were the least bit better, talking about пиндосы, гейропа etc. etc. Of course while Voice of America, RL/RFE etc. were propaganda, compared to the Soviet media they were rather good. And the rape of German women,,, that's probably not the point that you would want to raise, it does not look good.
- anticodon 8y ago
  Well I don't know which forums are you reading. When I open just any video on YouTube for example. If it is a video about any technology, ussr or Russian (cars, planes, electronics, heavy machinery), there will be at least several comments saying that it was stolen from the west. No matter what kind of car or plane the video is about, even if it was first off its kind in the world, and there were simply no sample to copy. If it's DIY video, then there will be comments that if the author lived in the west, he would be a billionaire already. If it's a video of village life, there will be comments that if it would be western village, authors would have lived in government sponsored mansion, harvest would be bought by the government by price that is 10x market price, etc. How write all these comments? They are everywhere. Under every video, every Facebook party, every article on the news site.
  - Fins 8y ago
    Even disregarding the fact that for any given X, that X most like actually was stolen... But these aren't particularly interesting places. Now, if you check the Russian section of LiveJournal, or comments sections of online news sites, let alone professionally patriotic sites (Goblin etc.), you would be amazed as how anyone could complain about perfectly sensible and reasonable comments you mention above. I do assume that you speak/read Russian well enough...

chlvsl 8y ago

And if I share an opinion that's not the norm, I'm an "evil russian".

Fins 8y ago

As if Russian-language forums were the least bit better, talking about пиндосы, гейропа etc. etc. Of course while Voice of America, RL/RFE etc. were propaganda, compared to the Soviet media they were rather good. And the rape of German women,,, that's probably not the point that you would want to raise, it does not look good.

anticodon 8y ago
Well I don't know which forums are you reading. When I open just any video on YouTube for example. If it is a video about any technology, ussr or Russian (cars, planes, electronics, heavy machinery), there will be at least several comments saying that it was stolen from the west. No matter what kind of car or plane the video is about, even if it was first off its kind in the world, and there were simply no sample to copy. If it's DIY video, then there will be comments that if the author lived in the west, he would be a billionaire already. If it's a video of village life, there will be comments that if it would be western village, authors would have lived in government sponsored mansion, harvest would be bought by the government by price that is 10x market price, etc. How write all these comments? They are everywhere. Under every video, every Facebook party, every article on the news site.
- Fins 8y ago
  Even disregarding the fact that for any given X, that X most like actually was stolen... But these aren't particularly interesting places. Now, if you check the Russian section of LiveJournal, or comments sections of online news sites, let alone professionally patriotic sites (Goblin etc.), you would be amazed as how anyone could complain about perfectly sensible and reasonable comments you mention above. I do assume that you speak/read Russian well enough...