Alexander Ryklin: “A blow to the face of an NTV employee has a symbolic meaning”

“Without exaggeration, we can say that in the current era, a drunken paratrooper with red eyes and a brutal expression on his face has become a symbol of Putin’s Russia. The Kremlin believes that the “polite green men” who ensured our country rose from its knees and at the same time threw it back to the deepest backyards of the third world, having retired to the reserves, they become an invaluable reserve of the current government, on which it, this same government, can rely at any moment,” writes the editor-in-chief of the Daily Journal .

“On August 2, 2017, something happened that was supposed to happen one day - in Gorky Park, a man wearing a T-shirt with the emblem of Oplot (a pro-Russian organization operating in the Donbass) delivered a direct and pointed blow to the jaw of an NTV correspondent at the very moment when he was driving report on the celebration of Airborne Forces Day. It was as if the front line of the “Russian world” attacked the representative of the propaganda support of this project... The assault brigade, turning around during the battle, attacked its own rearguard!

Comments from the official media were not long in coming. And now they tell us that the hooligan has nothing to do with either the paratroopers or Oplot, and the cameraman of this very NTV brigade says that the attacker allegedly “shouted pro-Ukrainian slogans”! Although everything was exactly the opposite: a blow to the jaw was accompanied by a threat to seize Ukraine. Well, isn't it lovely! One is simply amazed at the amazing spontaneity with which they invent any nonsense, as long as it corresponds to the general ideological direction!”

“I must admit that I did not feel any sympathy for the beaten NTV employee until the moment when a cameraman from his team began talking about the “Ukrainian trace,” and only after... The reputation of the television company does not allow the people who work in it to count not only on professional solidarity, but even on ordinary human feelings."