It's not propaganda
It is, when you're selectively reporting things (and Russia Today was doing this, blatantly) and give biased interpretations, etc.
I'm not saying that the Western (and Polish media) were and maybe still are always 100% objective, but I was watching Polish news channels, BBC World, CNN, Bloomberg and Russia Today and what I saw on Russia Today was simply... editing reality. You would think no protestors were shot if you watched Russia Today. It's mindblowing, even for Russia Today (I was watching RT in the past and I don't think it was ever that bad).
Barney, at one point one reporter even said that there are "pogroms" going on in Ukraine. Pogroms!
Neo-Nazis are in Control of Armed Forces, National Security, Economy, Justice and Education the right sector and justice parties control these ministries
If that's what worries Putin why didn't he say anything about those guys during the press conference? He talked a lot about one of the oligarchs appointed in the East, but nothing about "Neo-Nazis" in the ministries, as far as I can remember.
We had at one point (during the PiS rule) in Poland one guy who was a leader of a far-right wing party considered to be anti-Semitic and was a chairman of the far-right All-Polish Youth organization - he (Roman Giertych) was appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education because PiS needed his party to form a governmental coalition. But we survived lol And noone had to invade us (not even Israel lol). The funny thing is that some years later some Jewish organisation hired him as a laywer to fight a ban on ritual slaughter in Poland.
And here you have this former IDF soldier who says those "Neo-Nazis" aren't as bad as they are portrayed:
Of course I don't know what they really are like and Poles were also worried about UPA flags at Maidan but somehow Poland isn't invading Ukraine despite the fact that there are Poles living in Western Ukraine. And you should know that when some Poles hear the word "sotnia" they get chills. Even I had some bad associations when I was watching Cossacks hitting their drums at Maidan.
I understand concerns but that's just a temporary government and there were supposed to be democratic elections to be held in May, as far as I can remember. But now? What will happen now? Putin is creating just more chaos. And I think on purpose.
Nothing bad was happening to Russians. I doubt anything bad would happen.
It takes a special form of fascist to make Putin look good.
The problem is that what Putin is doing is making things far worse. He's destabilising the situation in Ukraine to such an extent that it may lead to war. Don't you understand this?
And he's a liar.
None of this has to do with fascists or protecting russian speakers.
Well, my Russian friend thinks he doesn't care about them.
Typically, the moderates aren't loud enough to sieze the reins of power in a vacuum like this.
The moderates are in the government too.
But his goal is to dominate all of Ukraine, which he sees as strategically part of Russia.
Of course he sees Ukraine in such a way. Russia always has seen these lands in such a way and treated them in such a way.
Since Poland is in the EU and NATO (thank God!) now Ukraine is "the buffer country". Poland used to be "the buffer country" between the West and Russia during the communist times, for example. According to plans of that time it could be turned into a nuclear wasteland, they didn't care...
I bet Estonia is very happy nowadays that they're in the EU and NATO. They have a big Russian minority too. And Russians call Estonians facists too. If the EU falls apart, Estonia could be next in line, probably... lol ;/
Listen, guys, we in Central Europe get heart palpitations when we see what's going on... lol We have 1938, 1956, 1968, etc. before our eyes.
You know how an ex-military Russian justified the Soviet invasions to me? It was the facists taking over in Hungary in 1956 so they had to be stopped. In Czechoslovakia in 1968 THERE WAS NO INVASION. It was "a friendly help" from allies since the government of Czechoslovakia
asked for intervention :D Like Yanukovych did :D He asked, so it's all legal... Do you understand? It's all OK. It's always
legal or at least justified.
What such Russians have to say about Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact? It was necessary from the point of view of Soviet interests and to protect the local people :) (or at least some of them because others were sent to gulags or shot). And there was Poland at that time anyway, the Polish government fled to the West. So it was all legal and OK. Do you know there was actually a guy who said that it was also in his country's interest to kill Polish officers in KatyĆ... And that he would do something like this if it was "necessary". I was getting chills when I was reading his comments.
Some Poles say that when Russian men get into military something happens to them, that they get brainwashed.
I don't know if that's the case but I've discussed with so many of them...
I'm not sure if you realise what kind of man Putin is. And in what kind of Matrix he may be living...