* Putin’s war on freedom of expression in Russia appeared to be fraying at the edges on Thursday
* Guests on Kremlin-backed television defied Moscow and openly criticised the ongoing war in Ukraine
* Some said the invasion was worse than the Afghanistan operation in the 1980s which ended in failure
* Putin has intensified a crackdown on media and individuals who fail to hew to the Kremlin line on the war
Putin’s war on freedom of expression in Russia appeared to be fraying at the edges on Thursday after guests on Kremlin-backed TV defied Moscow and openly criticised the brutal conflict in Ukraine, calling the invasion ‘even worse than Afghanistan’.
Guests have refused to support the narrative pushed through by television hosts on Putin’s request that Russia has been conducting a ‘special operation’ to ‘demilitarise’ and ‘de-Nazify’ Ukraine – claims dismissed as baseless pretexts by Kyiv and her partners in the West.
One who appeared on one of Russia 1’s prime time talk show rebelled by referring to the USSR’s disastrous invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 which ended in withdrawal ten years later.
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Update: Even Russian State TV Is Pleading With Putin to Stop the War (Daily Beast)
WNU Editor: Everyone in Russia knows what is happening in Ukraine. And the mood is definitely changing against the war among many, including among those in the media. But is it significant enough to change Kremlin war policy on Ukraine?
As I had mentioned in a post a few days ago. Unless there are a 100,000 Russians on the streets of Moscow openly demonstrating against this war, this war is going to continue.
9 comments:
Well, that's not have to be underestimated.
Russian fate ultimately in the peoples hands.
Refreshing to see a nation's media tolerating dissent.
Russians many times stood up and risked their lives to prevent all out nuclear war with America
Remember the guy on the sub? Fcking hero
We need to do the same
Those who divide us, who call one side names, are the enemy
And that's CNN MSNBC NY TIMES WAPO NPR, the media establishment.. no one - no one(!)- has caused more death, destruction and division than those outlets,
They divided us during covid
They cheered on the WMD lie @Iraq
They lied about the Russia hoax for years
They lied about racism
They lied about police brutality
They lie to divide us
So that those who control them can plunder our treasure and put in laws that can only go one direction
It's called TURN-KEY TOTALITARIANISM
They put everything in place, from unjust laws to spy networks and digital currency and social credit score to then turn the key and render your and my nation into nightmarish hell holes
Or it's Putin testing the disinformation waters by planting an idea of peace via dissent.
Because he knows the fight is much more difficult than he had anticipated.
He responds to public demands even though they are nazis.
jimbron's explanation may not be right, but it is consistent with the facts on the ground.
Jim brown, maybe.. but the news outlets that I trust, which have been proven right over the years, keep saying the labs are real
And if you consider just how much we've been lied to, and divided bu, our own governments- who literally built concentration camps while calling one side super spreaders ALL WHILE SILENCING ACTUAL SCIENTISTS - cannot be trusted anymore
Also other more mainstream news outlets, including US #1 news anchor tucker Carlson is reporting on it publicly now
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-we-have-right-know-this
And keep in mind, the same people who lie to us again today, lied about WMDs in Iraq and even about the Wuhan lan in China and the US money trail
And what did they do? Call people liars back then
THEY are the liars
THEY steal our money
THEY divide us
Fck they call half the country racist
No more!!
I agree
Something is up
One side is not telling the truth, that's for sure -- and this time we all need to pay attention: who lied, and most importantly: who keeps trying to divide us along gender, race and creed
It has to stop
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