RFE: Aboard Russia's Propaganda Train Of 'Syrian War Trophies
KURSK, Russia -- When a trainload of tanks, guns, and other military hardware supposedly seized from the Syrian battlefields pulled up at Kursk railway station on a cloudy afternoon this week, a jubilant crowd was there to greet it.
An orchestra belted out Soviet war songs. A state-funded paramilitary youth movement performed a dance for world peace. A World War II veteran in battered shoes lauded Russia's armed forces. And officials in slick suits delivered the obligatory praise for the president and commander in chief, Vladimir Putin.
"The next generation must understand that the enemy is not far away," said Acting Regional Governor Roman Starovoit. "It must be liquidated on the threshold of our motherland's borders."
Kursk, a city of 450,000 people five hours by train from Moscow, was the third stop on a nationwide, 28,000-kilometer propaganda tour launched by Russia's Defense Ministry to showcase the achievements of its military campaign in Syria. Putin announced the campaign in September 2015 with the promise of air support for his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad's fight against the extremist Islamic State group (IS) and against rebel forces backed by the West.
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WNU Editor: Russians are tired of the Syrian war. But they are still going to show up for this show.
CNN homepage reverted back to having the failed North Korea summit as their top story.. wow... these guys revel in failure and root for the president to fail, it's just unbelievable
ReplyDeleteAgain, follow the money and who benefits from CNN dividing America and making Americans hate Russians.. it's China.. they spend so much money on CNN for pro China ads and pro China editorials that I really want Zucker (head of CNN) to be investigated. Also the connection to CNN Turk - the Turkish CNN network and its connection to Erdogan. Remember when the Wapo reporter was killed by Saudi Arabia? CNN "reporters" (mouth pieces) were hell bent for Trump to drop the USD 100bn(!) arms deal, over that one guy - completely ignoring the other thousands of reporters killed over the last 10 years.. why was this one guy so important? Because CNN got paid by Turkey and China (CNN Turk and Chinese money) to drop the arms deal. The only two nations with military complexes large enough to fill a 100billion arms deal are Russia and China.
Again, follow the money, investigate CNN