If we had someone to tell us that it’s ok, we’re doing everything right, even though, we’re not? If we were given a possibility to kill, to ruin everyone and everything we want, who would refuse? Well, probably anyone who has humanity in heart and at least a little of smartness in brain.
Germans believed they had been doing the world a favour with getting rid of Jewish people, and bringing their Nazi rules in Europe. They didn’t suspect, that the world was pretty fine with its own policy and regimes. They all agreed that war was needed. That victims of German soldiers aren’t even victims, but traitors and enemies, who deserved to be killed. I’ve just finished reading Remarque’s book Spark of life, and there was a phrase by an “owner” of an Internment, he said something like we’d been killing them because they made us do so, but they’re killing poor and helpless us, because they are killers (the quote is not accurate, it’s rather the way I understood it). He reassured himself with it, while so many others did literally the same. They wanted to be deceived by those words. Wanted to be innocent.
It was 77 years ago. All that time the world was screaming NEVER AGAIN, we won’t let war happen. Except russians. They had those CAN REPEAT. Dangerous sign already, isn’t it? All those years they’ve been preparing for fights, for wars and destruction. Their propaganda turned them into slaves, obedient and useless. We don’t consider them victims of it, obviously. They let it happen. We’re stupid enough to believe everything, they saw on the TV. They still do. When the entire world talks about war between russia and Ukraine, they keep saying it’s just an operation, Ukraine bombs itself, our soldiers don’t touch civilians. Those russians that call themselves liberal, found it easy to believe, that russian soldiers didn’t know what they were doing, they obeyed orders, were just on the teachings. They are not guilty, no. They are heroes.
Or another example. If we use Google to find information about Bucha, Irpin’, Hostomel, we will see destroyed towns, dead bodies everywhere. Death and horror. But russians don’t use Google. They have Yandex. Yandex, which is under russian government control. There, the situation is different. There are no ruins. No war. Just beautiful, peaceful places. And russians believe THAT reality. They call all our loss a photoshop. The play. The same way, they believed the shooting of maternity hospital in Mariupol was fake. Because one of the girls from there was a blogger and model. What else could it be, we wonder, how much was she paid.
And how easy everyone believed in an existing of opposition in russia. When that journalist Marina Ovsyanikova, who was creating the propaganda for ages. Showed up with a poster saying STOP WAR. russians called her a heroine. The great percent of the world is now using her example to say, NOT ALL russians. Because it’s easy. Easy to be under the illusion. The world was hoping for someone like her, to clean up the reputation of all russians.
To sum up, people want to be deceived sometimes. They are nothing but slaves in my eyes. Obedient marionettes, who really don’t mind such roles. They don’t want to be responsible for their crimes. Ready to believe anything they are told just to be not guilty. They say I can’t do anything about my government, I wasn’t the one who killed people. It’s not me. I’m just a poor, small person. They need to be under someone’s control, because they won’t survive in the reality.
