Humiliation, aggression and gardemozochism. What Russia and Putin's authorities are built - interview with HB with British writer Peter Pomerantsev
In his book "Nothing True and Everything is possible" in 2014 he, based on his own experience of making a television producer of documentaries in Russia, describes the world of authoritarian power, big money and almighty Russian television. The journalist also reflects on the way of thinking of modern Russia, in which personality is deeply broken down.
Video of the day, according to Pomerantsev, with whom NV met in Kiev, became one of the reasons for the conformist perception of the Russians of war with Ukraine. In an interview, he also spoke about the role of information in the full -scale war, the historical parallels between Adolf Hitler and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Sadomasochism of Russian society and the behavior of the West, which has a complex energy winter.
-How is Russian military propaganda in 2022 different from Russian military propaganda in 2014? - Despite the fact that these are completely different operations - then there was a bloody operation in the Donbass, and now it is genocide - the Russians still do not use the word "war". Inside the country, they try to create a feeling that it happens somewhere far away, that it is all international affairs and you are here [the Russians] to nothing. They are still afraid of general mobilization.
Despite the fact that so much has changed compared to 2014, much remained the same-then they also said a lot about the fact that this evil event forced us, we were not left choice. Now, despite the fact that there is a war, people in Russia still do not want to talk about it. - Why does Russia not call war war? - Hitler had the same. Until 1941, he almost did not use the word "war", it was all "operations". Operation in Poland, for example.
There was no legal ban, but Hitler tried to use the word "war" minimally. Because people do not want to live in the war, people want to live safe. Probably because. To humiliate, conquer, capture is nice, but you want to feel safe. And the war is a recognition that I go, kill and die. I recently read an article by a journalist with Der Spiegel. He went to Moscow and tried to describe the city. So there are no posters about the war, allegedly no war.
On television, the war from everywhere, and on the streets of Moscow - no. You can live in Moscow and forget about the war. You are not mobilized to the army, you are at war for you and others. That is, the Russian authorities do not want this class of people living in Moscow, thinking about the war, knew about the war and feared it. - I, like many other journalists, wrote an article about how Ukrainians communicate with their relatives living in Russia.