Russian writer Michail Chichkine, in his book “Peace or War: Reflections on the ‘Russian World’”, recently translated into French, quotes this statement by Putin: “Lies are a means of influence; I oppose the world ruled by the US by lying straight to its face.”
Putin, as a cadre of the Soviet communist regime, has over the years exercised political practices in which the techniques of lies have their own specifics, but the purpose of these is the same: he wants to convince Western European opinion of the “truth” of his views.
In his speeches, he achieves the inversion of the perception of concrete events, naming them with words and terms that change their meaning. Thus, Putin “explained” the aggression on Ukraine as a “liberation” war against a “Nazi power”. In fact, this redefinition of reality aims to destroy the logical criteria by which we distinguish between a crime and a liberation action.
Isabelle Mandraud, a specialist on contemporary Russia, points out in the daily newspaper “Le Monde” that a few months after the military aggression on Ukraine, there was a surge in interest in Orwell’s novel “1984” (where it is said, for example, that “war is peace”) which “describes a totalitarian world in which elements of Nazism and Stalinism are mixed”.
Meanwhile, Vera Grantseva, a former professor at the University of St. Petersburg, wrote that “the Russian system of permanent lying has gained such great strength that it permeates all levels of power, down to the lowest level”. She gives a concrete example of this type of lying: “When Russians complain about the poor condition of their roads – a frequent problem – officials publish photos of holes in the asphalt that have been repaired with Photoshop ”!
Hannah Arendt in her book on totalitarianism emphasized: “In a totalitarian system, the practice of lying is distinguished; it does not lie only about facts, but displays an absolute contempt for all facts.”
Victims of terrorism cannot be equated with terrorists.
Similarly, Vučić, as a disciple of Putin, is today trying to present the action of the Kosovo police against the terrorist actions of the Serbian police as a crime that cannot be justified. Vučić’s lie aims to mystify the “reality” of the perception of the situation we recently faced in northern Kosovo.
On the other hand, the EU spokesperson in Kosovo, as well as senior US officials, clearly stated that “victims of terrorism cannot be equated with terrorists.” These statements are important because they prevent the distortion of reality and the mystification of the events in northern Kosovo; this position holds within itself the criterion by which the distinction between crime and the denial of crime is made.
Meanwhile, the President of Serbia, Vučić, declared three days of mourning for the killing of the Serbian terrorists. Vučić, of course, adopted a significant part of Milhošević’s ideological schemes: it is known that he used the theme of the “endangered Serbian minority” as a justification for military aggression against Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. It is also known that Hitler used this scheme of the German minority in the Czech Republic for military aggression against the Czech Republic, an event that marked the opening of World War II.
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