The car of Russian propaganda has been working hard over the past few weeks to justify the war in Ukraine and, most importantly, to prove that Vladimir Putin is winning. Fake Movies, fake news and distorted reality are the most potent weapons at the Kremlin’s disposal to cover up what at the moment can almost be seen as a failure of the Russian operation in Ukraine. In this whirlwind of news, many fake ones ended up, including Italy, which was taken as an example by the Russians to demonstrate at home how to do it sanctions applied to Russia were actually a boomerang, especially for the West.
The use of the main Internet channels in Russia was blocked: no social networks for Russians and no information from outside the country. An almost total censorship for the citizens of Wladimir Putinwho can only get information if they are domestic. And so, the work of the propagandists, who pack messages aimed at supporting the action in Ukraine and, above all, denying the economic and financial abyss that Russia is entering in the last two months after the sanctions imposed by the states, will lighter. westerners.
But it is in Russia’s interest to prove otherwise, and so some images dating back to the lockdown as Italy was experiencing one of its darkest crises began shooting up on the Kremlin’s Telegram propaganda channels. During this time there were many people who could no longer live due to the forced closure of their businesses and who had to rely on paper bandages such as e.g Daily Bread, the association that for years has been helping the poor of Milan by providing meals and basic necessities. The queues in front of the association’s entrances in Viale Monza are nothing new for the residents of the city and even today, just like after the two years of the pandemic, many people depend on volunteer food on a daily basis.
But now these images have been captured by the Russians and montaged into a video circulating on Telegram, which explains that precisely because of the sanctions it has imposed on Russia, Europe would be in full crisis, almost on its knees. faminea very severe economic crisis and queues for a hot meal would be the norm in Italy, as a result of Mario Draghi’s anti-Russia policy, which according to Russian propaganda on Telegram is destroying the country.