Why We Should Not Trust Moscow’s Crocodile Tears

Banner by Oleksiy Say

This is a translation of the original article by Uchoose.

Immediately after the performance of the Russian propagandist Ovsyannikova with her poster, media experts and ordinary people who are well versed in Russian lies said that this special operation was aimed at foreign audience. It has long been known that Russian television is severely censored: there are no live broadcasts, news stories are often fictional from beginning to end, the shots are staged, and experts have FSB (Russia’s Federal Security Service) ranks. And what else could we expect from a country where autocracy has been built for decades, and where total control over the media is the key to the regime’s existence?

Screenshot from the TV show Time on Russia’s Channel One
Screenshot from the TV show Time on Russia’s Channel One

But, unfortunately, there are still people in the West who are willing to believe in “good” Russians and the possibility of a riot in the recorded news. It’s like believing in Santa Claus in your 60s. No one was surprised that the writing on the poster for the Russians began in English. Even if it was a live broadcast, the probability of a person with a poster entering the studio would be about zero percent: in Russia, such facilities are better protected than nuclear power plants. These are total lies, severely controlled by the terrorist country. However, if these arguments do not convince you, then think about this. Recently, the State Duma of the Russian Federation passed a law according to which 15 years in prison is provided for calling the war war. And here she appeared on “live” central TV with the poster and ended up just being fined?

We know very well what fate awaits the real revealers of the regime in Russia. We know it from the examples of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and oppositionist Boris Nemtsov. In Russia, you get a bullet in the back for the truth, not a fine. Ovsyannikova had a clear mission from the FSB – to squeeze a tear from the sentimental Western public, knowing that in the free world it is easy to “breed” people for emotions. In Russia, there is a saying “Moscow does not believe in tears.” This is the quintessence of this country. Unfortunately, the West still believes in Ostankino’s staged tears, which should ease sanctions for Russians or make it more difficult to impose new restrictions.

Banner by Asya Krasilnikova
Banner by Asya Krasilnikova

You see, the “revealer” of propaganda did not continue to expose her crimes. Very quickly, she began to talk in the foreign media about the inadmissibility of Russophobia. She started talking about her disabled mother, who can not buy medicine, and her schoolgirl daughter, who can not pay with a virtual card in a cafeteria. Et voilà! Criminals turn into victims! Whenever you hear such stories of “unfortunate” Russians, know that Alexander Kononov, a disabled activist from the Luhansk region, a man with no arms and no legs, was shot dead by Russians in a wheelchair in his own house. In the same Luhansk region, Russians fired at a house with elderly people from tanks and killed 56 of them. 11-year-old Ukrainian gymnast Katya Dyachenko was killed by Russian bombs in Mariupol. Millions of Ukrainians do not have access to medicine, the whole besieged cities do not have access to food and water. People are buried in mass graves and simply in the yards of private houses. Are these inhuman sufferings comparable to what the Moscow propagandist, who made efforts to start this war, says? Does morality and conscience allow her to open her mouth after all this and ask not to punish the Russians?

If you want to stop the mass killings of Ukrainians, then talks about the suffering of Russians must be nipped in the bud. The world must not be turned upside down. Sociology shows that the vast majority of Russians support the war, they feel proud and happy. Therefore, they must pay for their murders with at least their well-being and think. Not punishing a murderer means encouraging him to commit even more horrific murders. Don’t you feel sorry for maniacs when they feel sad in prison and their mothers cry for them? So why do you believe in their tears then?