Stop war against Ukraine

  Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" The Russian Propaganda has been actively spreading lies for many years, as described in this article by Christopher Paul and Miriam Matthews  published in 2016. If you have read my previous posts, you know how propaganda and hate speech have been used to justify atrocity crimes throughout history, including during the holocaust and the years that preceeded it. Adolph Hitler's Nazi regime was the architect of the holocaust. Although humankind has said "never again" can such atrocities repeat, "never forget!", history seems to repeat itself as authoritarian rulers keep using the same recipe to get rid of groups of people that they want to remove of their way. This is what has inspired the caricature above of Putin reading Hitler's book "Mein Kampf", with the title "so it began, again!". A bit of truth To fight disinformation with information, here is another caricature, now inspired by Putin's

Background What is disinformation? Disinformation is the intentional spreading of false information. If you have read my previous post on Disinformation in Russia , you know that I am quite concerned about the hate-speech and disinformation that the Russian State and media have been spreading against Ukraine, trying to justify their illegal and morally wrong war, "infecting" the minds of the Russian population with hate that can lead to atrocities such as the mass killings in Bucha or the complete destruction of an entire city, such as Mariopol.  Russia will have presidential elections in 2024. After the public criticism that the chief of the mercenary Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has made to Putin's "military operation" and the possibility of a revolutions in Russia - and he continues to be alive, Putin's rule seems to be set to expire.  However, if we accept that a significant share of the Russian population has been convinced that the war against Ukr

Russian Youth "buys-into" the State's genocidal language In Russia, disinformation has won. The Kremlin's propaganda machine is working around the clock to convince the Russian people, including the Youth, that war in Ukraine is morally right. Russian youth is buying into the hate-speech "genocidal language" of the State, as flagged in this article by Chris Brown, CBC News , CBC News posted in May, 2023. Via other sources, I had already heard that Putin's propaganda machine was specifically targeting Youth, including through the action of the  Nashi youth movement , strongly pro-Putin and similar the the Nazi youth movement from Hitler, but I do not know much about it, fortunately.  Some common practices in Russia suggest children start being "groomed" for war from a very young age. It is common practice for kindergarten children to take-up in a mock-up military parade, where their educators are also wearing military uniforms, every year on the