r/europe • u/kyoukidotexe Europe • 3d ago

News Russia launches propaganda campaign in Europe “Russia is not my enemy”

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/4028250-russia-launches-propaganda-campaign-in-europe-russia-is-not-my-enemy.html
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u/Big-Machine9625 Czech Republic 3d ago

Europe should counter by spamming Russian media with the phrase "Putin is not my friend".

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u/fortytwoandsix Austria 2d ago

Putin is also the enemy of Russian people.

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u/Pravdik 2d ago

Somebody should tell that to the Russian people then.

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u/IndubitablyNerdy 2d ago

Many of them do know already, but the ones who war vocal are disappeared in gulags (see Navalny for exmaple) apparently.

Plus Putin has complete control over the national propaganda machine which is pretty good at creating consensus out of bullshit, not that the west is immune to this by the way...

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u/XRaisedBySirensX 2d ago

Idk if you could call it "many." There are Russian speaking anti Putin news/political channels on YouTube for example. Most videos get like 15-20 thousand views. The most popular ones maybe 100k. There are 143.5 million Russians. So a small fraction of a percent watch those videos. Even if the number of Russians who are anti Putin is a few times greater than the number who watch those videos, it is still a small number compared with overall number of Russians.

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u/Tomato7550 2d ago

jfyi, youtube is blocked in Russia, as well as many other sources of information

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u/XRaisedBySirensX 2d ago

Yeah, but at least for the younger generation, it doesn't seem to stop them. Everyone I know still maintains their Instagram profiles, for example.