The Josef Goebbels of our time is a woman. Her name is Margarita Simonyan.
She is the chief propagandist of the Kremlin. At 25 years old, she became the editor-in-chief of the state-controlled media channel, Russia Today. But I really doubt it was thanks to merit. It’s really because of her fierce loyalty to Putin. She regularly goes on tv and accuses Ukrainians of things so absurd, so outlandish that some people can’t help but think that she might be telling the truth. Because how could you possibly make such things up. A normal decent human being could not do that.
She’ll say things like “battalions of neo nazis are robbing and slaughtering local residents” while it is very well documented that it is the Russian army that has looted everything from cars to washing machines, you name it. “Ukraine is filled to the brim with neo-nazis that are using children as human shields." "Ukrainians target their own children with banned cluster bombs.” And my personal favorite, “Ukraine’s President Zelensky has banned all private media.” Umm, pretty sure that’s Russia that has cracked down on all independent journalists. That is an undeniable fact.
But truth does not matter. If you say a lie loud enough and long enough someone will believe it. I’ve been following her for quite some time now. Her modus operandi to me is pretty obvious. All she does is take things that the Russian army is doing and flip the frittata. She blames it all on the Ukrainians themselves. Do that enough times and it becomes plausible. At the very least she manages to muddy the waters.
Thankfully she’s been sanctioned by the EU but a large portion of the Russian population has been brainwashed. This is directly attributed to years of her work. She might not be wielding a gun but she has even more blood on her hands. She is still able to tweet and IG despite the fact that Russia has banned both Twitter and Instagram as extremist organizations in Russia. At the very beginning of the invasion, she tweeted “if you are ashamed of being Russian, don’t worry, you are not Russian.” So I guess I’m not Russian.
She’ll say things like “battalions of neo nazis are robbing and slaughtering local residents” while it is very well documented that it is the Russian army that has looted everything from cars to washing machines, you name it. “Ukraine is filled to the brim with neo-nazis that are using children as human shields." "Ukrainians target their own children with banned cluster bombs.” And my personal favorite, “Ukraine’s President Zelensky has banned all private media.” Umm, pretty sure that’s Russia that has cracked down on all independent journalists. That is an undeniable fact.
But truth does not matter. If you say a lie loud enough and long enough someone will believe it. I’ve been following her for quite some time now. Her modus operandi to me is pretty obvious. All she does is take things that the Russian army is doing and flip the frittata. She blames it all on the Ukrainians themselves. Do that enough times and it becomes plausible. At the very least she manages to muddy the waters.
Thankfully she’s been sanctioned by the EU but a large portion of the Russian population has been brainwashed. This is directly attributed to years of her work. She might not be wielding a gun but she has even more blood on her hands. She is still able to tweet and IG despite the fact that Russia has banned both Twitter and Instagram as extremist organizations in Russia. At the very beginning of the invasion, she tweeted “if you are ashamed of being Russian, don’t worry, you are not Russian.” So I guess I’m not Russian.
