If the Russian government has a bunch of femme fatale spies in their intelligence networks, why is their regular PR such a sausagefest?
It's like the same half dozen geriatric dudes talking about the Ukraine invasion every time.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
You do say "like" so I assume it's not really the same people, but no intelligent intelligence service is going to reveal the identities of its agents; irrespective of age, sex and looks!
The ones you see and hear are as you say, the Kremlin's spokespeople. Not their spies.
Besides, it's what they say - and don't say - that counts. Not their ages and sex, nor your erotic fantasies.
The ones you see and hear are as you say, the Kremlin's spokespeople. Not their spies.
Besides, it's what they say - and don't say - that counts. Not their ages and sex, nor your erotic fantasies.
plungesponge · 41-45, M
@ArishMell it's not just about erotic fantasies, if they want to win hearts and minds, a few fresh faces under the age of 60 is just good politics.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@plungesponge Well, one of the oldest tricks in the spies' books was the so-called "honey trap" - the femme fatale seducing the foreigner.
I take your point though. We have to try to see it from their side, if that's possible, and ask whether younger publicity officers would work for them in their own land. It might do, but whether it would even occur to their government is another matter. The nature of major dictatorships means they are reluctant to use any initiative or to move with the times, but they must also know their opponents would not really believe them, whether the publicist is some beautiful young lady or a gnarled old bloke in his nineties.
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Many years ago, under General Hoxa's ruthless, hard-line Communist regime, Albania's state-run Radio Tirana broadcast a weekly English language "service" on the short-wave band. After a very long build up by a repeated trumpet fanfare slowly increasing in power until swamping other stations near its frequency, it was merely a lengthy political-"theory" lecture. Nothing else, no "news" or weather, nothing cultural, etc. She might not have been its author, but the reader was always a young-sounding woman, speaking impeccable English. It did not make the lecture any more credible though - it was very boring and frankly very unreal, but almost worth listening to once or twice just to marvel at the naivety of Hoxa's propaganda department!
I take your point though. We have to try to see it from their side, if that's possible, and ask whether younger publicity officers would work for them in their own land. It might do, but whether it would even occur to their government is another matter. The nature of major dictatorships means they are reluctant to use any initiative or to move with the times, but they must also know their opponents would not really believe them, whether the publicist is some beautiful young lady or a gnarled old bloke in his nineties.
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Many years ago, under General Hoxa's ruthless, hard-line Communist regime, Albania's state-run Radio Tirana broadcast a weekly English language "service" on the short-wave band. After a very long build up by a repeated trumpet fanfare slowly increasing in power until swamping other stations near its frequency, it was merely a lengthy political-"theory" lecture. Nothing else, no "news" or weather, nothing cultural, etc. She might not have been its author, but the reader was always a young-sounding woman, speaking impeccable English. It did not make the lecture any more credible though - it was very boring and frankly very unreal, but almost worth listening to once or twice just to marvel at the naivety of Hoxa's propaganda department!
