An informative article about the blatant lies from the Kremlin. Click the link for the full story.
November 8, 2014 by Nikolai Holmov
A few days ago, an entry was posted lamenting the standard of Kremlin agitprop/disinformation/misinformation etc., and the chronically weak levels to which white, grey and black propaganda that is now discharged from the bowels of the Kremlin propaganda machine have reached. A nostalgic entry – wistful for the bygone days when the Kremlin actually wanted those exposed to its propaganda to believe it, and/or struggle (for various reasons) to disprove it. A good deal of time and effort was spent teasing out the truths and half-truths sometimes therein.
US Ambassador Geoff Pyatt (fortunately for Ukraine a career diplomat who knows his stuff, and not a US fund-raiser for a presidential campaign awarded an ambassadorship as a “thank you”) made the following point – rightly:
.@GeoffPyatt Our best weapon in dealing with this campaign of misdirection is the truth
http://t.co/6litmiXvXt #RussiaVsReality @LegatumInst
— U.S. Embassy Moldova (@USembMoldova) November 3, 2014
Indeed. There is no better way to puncture a lie than with the truth.
However, as Mark Twain is attributed as stating “A lie can be half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes” – and in the age of the Internet, a lie has now fully circumvented the globe in a second.
Yet another top ex-diplomat left a comment under the entry lamenting the current Kremlin propaganda – the ever-wise and erudite Charles Crawford:
“The explicit dishonesty and stupidity of such propaganda are designed to show that Russia under current management just does not care about weary ‘Western’ distinctions between Truth and Lies. They send a mighty message: Russia will do whatever it takes to win, where winning is defined as what the GRU/Kremlin say it is today.
In other words, why worry about Big Lies? Go for Absolutely Enormous Lies instead. Why not, after all?
And, if Russia succeeds in stealing land allegedly ‘lost’ when the USSR dissolves, perhaps that’s all the ‘lasting impact’ the GRU/Kremlin care about”
http://www.odessatalk.com/2014/11/tell-big-lies-can-tell-enormous-lies-instead/
