A couple of phrases: “explosion” vs “cotton”

Great ownership of the dictionary

“At the end of 2019, many users of social networks began to pay attention to the fact that in the messages of the Russian media the word“ explosion ”, they are increasingly replaced by“ cotton ” - even in cases where it is obviously about explosion with large -scale destruction and human victims. This is true: if at the beginning of 2017 the number of “cotton” in the news of such incidents was calculated in dozens, then in January 2020 the account went already by thousands. Sources of Medusa in law enforcement agencies and the presidential administration say that this is a focused policy to introduce the “regime of informational favor” - in order to “not sow panic” with reports of explosions. ”

" Medusa "

“From the very first days, the new government has demonstrated the magnificent ownership of the dictionary. It is born ... The art of changing the meaning of things by changing their name ... At the end of 1920, dissatisfaction begins to express the workers louder ... strikes flare up ... Since the workers cannot strike in the "working state", they are not declared workers. “But are these workers strike? .. There are no real workers in St. Petersburg: they went to the front, for food work, etc. And this is all - a bastard, skinniks, shopkeepers, which were clinging to the factories during the war ... ”and the“ strike ”are deleted from the dictionary:“ Skeletons ”working in Petrograd plants, arrange“ tricks ”,“ Buza ”.

Mikhail Geller and Alexander Nekrich. " Utopia in power "