"The European Union will repeat the fate of the USSR." Why Russian propaganda is the collapse of the West

A referendum in Catalonia - as, however, and any crisis in Europe, the USA or Ukraine - is a kind of “meaning of life” for Russian propaganda. The intonation that has developed in the state media in recent years, almost know-how: they learned to waste, combing any wound and savor the details of someone else's mistake or tragedy under the guise of an “objective retelling” or even “sympathy”. In mid -August, the host of one of the copyright programs “Vesti FM” gave a record of the terrifying cries of people who scatter during the attack in Barcelona, ​​and commented them like this: “Listen, this is the same prosperous Europe.” On October third, the presenter of the same radio station asks a question to the sports observer: “Tell me, and if Catalonia separates, under what flag it will perform at the World Cup?” The innocence of this phrase, its routine conveys the only message: "We would like to be like that." In such cases, state radio and television turn into continuous “Catalan news”. All the same was during the referendum in Scotland, during elections in America, France, in Holland, not to mention the crisis of migrants.

The sunset of Europe is finally

But this is the lower level of propaganda pretending to be journalism. Above it there is a superstructure - “analytics”, which should give this sensual impulse the appearance of argumentation and thoughts. One of its fundamental theses today looks like this: "The European Union repeats the fate of the late USSR." This comparison is based on any arguments in favor of the “collapse of the European Union” and the referendum in Catalonia as its first call. For example, political scientist Fedor Lukyanov, commenting on the eve of the event on the air, says that what is happening in Catalonia "resembles the times of the late USSR with a parade of sovereignty." Another speaking head and permanent guest of analytical talk shows, Vitaly Tretyakov uses the magic of numbers as an argument: “The time of their life [of states]-from 50 to 75 years old, which is also destined for history, but I will not prove it now. <...> What we see now in the European Union, which has already entered in the last decade of his life. ” “Empires break up,” they say, summing up the Catalan referendum, propagandists, inspiring us that these are the “laws of nature” and this is “only the beginning” .

"The USSR was an empire - all empires break up, so the European Union will also break up." This logic rests on a number of horizontal theses, which, as it were, go in a circle and constantly refer to each other.

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