The main peculiarity of Russian propaganda is that Russians rarely try to craft a single attractive and consistent story. Instead they throw around many different (quite often contradicting) messages… and then they see which ones work. This might seem a strange, stupid or even schizophrenic approach, but the sheer number of people who listen to and follow the Russian narratives all around the world is astonishing.
The trick is that each message works for a different audience. This is a very postmodern approach where social bubbles and prejudices of various groups are exploited. The main aim is not to prove to the world that Russia is a great country (even Russian propagandists realize this is an impossible task), but to plant the seeds of doubt and distrust among the many big and small forces of the West, to make them feud with one another and to make them weak.
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Продовжую досліджувати тексти Вацлава Гавела. Цього разу прочитав матеріал «Анатомія стриманості» (Anatomy of reticence) 1985 року, про утопічно-тоталітарне мислення та політику примирення. Далі йде мій конспект думок, які залишаються актуальними для України і Європи після понад 30 років з часу написання тексту.
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