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/sorE_doG 2d ago

Muscovites are widely with Putin, Western cities of Kaliningrad & St Petersburg too I’d speculate.. but east of the Urals? Not so much.

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u/turbo-unicorn European Chad🇷🇴 2d ago

Even east of the Urals. I've a friend in Ulan-Ude (Buryat republic). Even though a disproportionally large number of the war dead are from that region, Putin remains popular.

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u/sorE_doG 2d ago

The power of propaganda huh?

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u/turbo-unicorn European Chad🇷🇴 2d ago

It's a bit more complex than that. There's a lot of cynicism, and hopelessness that things can become better.

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u/sorE_doG 2d ago

That’s an outcome of 3 decades of propaganda, isn’t it?

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u/turbo-unicorn European Chad🇷🇴 2d ago

No, centuries of imperialism and colonialism, in which the last 30 years play a part, but just one part. The whole country needs therapy, really. I don't really think outsiders can understand the situation unless they've immersed in the community for quite some time.

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u/sorE_doG 2d ago

I just mentioned the centuries of authoritarian rule an hour ago.. I fully agree with your statement & sentiment. I’ve been fortunate enough to travel the world & get a broader perspective than most. Including a year in China. The situation there is a different facet to a similar chain of authoritarian regimes, and the odd brutal revolution, massive genocides & erasures.

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u/turbo-unicorn European Chad🇷🇴 2d ago

I think the world would be a much better place if people had the ability to travel and understand each other. As it is, we live through stereotypes.

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u/sorE_doG 2d ago

Travel is a wonderful education, it’s true.. a Privilege that’s not really as available as it used to be. It’s a different world than the one I grew up in, e.g. internet & starlink is now an existential threat to some remote societies.. and like Ai, it’s not as helpful as the proponents claim.

There are many analogies we can use, but we’re not as evolved as most of us would like to think. Stone Age brains in a very complex & confused world.

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u/Xepeyon America 2d ago

Some of the most die-hard Russian patriots come from the rural and eastern parts of the country. Cities tend to produce more liberalist sensibilities; you'll have more anti-Putin and/or pro-Western Russians in the major city centers than you will in Siberia.

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u/sorE_doG 2d ago

The ones left after the patriotic recruitment drives & $74000 payments? I wonder how many of those are capable of making a noise?