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yaesu

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Thu May 26, 2022, 11:35 AM May 2022

Russia uses Orwellian propaganda news vans in Mariupol

Russia has deployed mobile propaganda vans with large-screen televisions to humanitarian aid points in the captured city of Mariupol as the Kremlin has pushed forward with efforts to integrate newly occupied territories across the south of Ukraine.

Videos published by the Russian ministry of emergency situations showed the vans, which it called “mobile information complexes”, playing state TV news segments and political chatshows where pundits support the invasion to locals in the ruined city that still lacks electricity and running water.

The Orwellian turn comes as much of Mariupol was destroyed in an artillery bombardment that left thousands dead. One of the vans was deployed near the ruins of the Mariupol drama theatre, where hundreds were killed in an airstrike in March.

Several of the trucks now patrol the city, mainly playing Russian television news segments. “The people of Mariupol have been held in a virtual informational vacuum for three months due to the lack of electricity,” wrote the emergencies ministry in a statement.

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Russia uses Orwellian propaganda news vans in Mariupol (Original Post) yaesu May 2022 OP
it's scary how russians and republicans think the same, lie the same, and destroy innocent people samsingh May 2022 #1
yep, they definitely use the same playbook. nt yaesu May 2022 #2

samsingh

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1. it's scary how russians and republicans think the same, lie the same, and destroy innocent people
Thu May 26, 2022, 11:42 AM
May 2022

the same

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