Igor Aidman: "Castle stone of Russian propaganda"

"We are making a documentary with my colleagues about Russian TV -propaganda. Yesterday they shot all day in Berlin (Martsan and nearby) interviews with Russian -speaking. The results are disappointing. The vast majority of respondents are sitting on the Kremlin television agent," the sociologist writes on their Facebook page.

"There is such a version that is popular among high -blade intellectuals that the Kremlin propaganda is the postmodernist in essence. And it creates the supposedly not clear ideological picture of the world (as it was under the Communists), but a certain white noise discrediting any information about reality that confuses and disorienting people. During yesterday's filming, he was convinced that this was not so.

All surveyed, like in advance criminals during interrogation or followers of the totalitarian sect, reproduced the same invented stories, developing in an integral, internally consistent picture of the world. The castle stone of this ideological structure is the image of the enemy in the person of the United States. Everything rests on it.

Many Russian -speaking in Germany have chosen and confidently repeat the propaganda messages of Russian television. It sounds something like this: "The United States wants to subjugate and exploit the whole world and, above all, by resources of Russia."

It comes to curioses. One of the respondents said, referring to REN TV, that soon a kind of climatic disaster would destroy America and its authorities want to capture Siberia in advance in order to be saved there from death. "The USA (sometimes also called the UK as a younger partner of the Americans) is to blame for all modern wars, including in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, etc. The Americans wanted to capture Crimea and Donbass, ISIS helps, they sow tempetus and bloodshed. Of course, ours was also ours (about the seizure of Ekaterina II Peninsula, but the most important thing is that Americans are) They wanted to occupy it in order to get closer to Russia. "

The rearmament of the Russian army, intervention in Syria and Ukraine, military hysteria on grows - "all this is just an answer to US aggression."

Interestingly, Germany is not perceived as an independent international force. In the eyes of the spectators of the grows, she is also a victim of the Americans, who "imposed Merkel refugees, forced to impose sanctions against Russia (beneficial only to America), etc."

Putin for them is a "excellent leader." "He would have made more in the social sphere to increase the standard of living of people, but all forces go to fight off the Americans. Thus, he preserves Russia and peace on Earth."

Other myths: about the collapse of the USSR; About Gorbachev, to whom the Americans promised not to expand NATO, but deceived; About the dashing 90s, etc. - secondary. "All this collapse and decline of Russia took place in the interests of the United States. And now Putin has put things in order and restored the destroyed country. Therefore, the Americans want to throw it away, using all kinds of bulk."

In Soviet times, there was nothing similar. The then anti -American propaganda did not work. Many Russians treated the United States with interest and hidden admiration. I'm not even talking about emigrants. Putin's propaganda campaign was extremely effective. The confrontation with the United States managed to justify economic difficulties, military adventures, and territorial captures in the eyes of people.

I'm not a fan of America. I like the political and socio-economic structure of the Scandinavian countries more. But we must admit that it is possible to stop Putin’s propaganda only by destroying the myth of the United States as a center of world evil. Apparently, no one is engaged in this, including the Americans themselves. "