After the invasion of Russia in Ukraineagainst which many Russians filled the squares from Moscow to St. Petersburg for a few weeks Putin. The (peaceful) demonstrations continued until the many arrests and fear silenced them. They were animated above all by the new generations, the young Russians, whom the Kremlin – never like today – cannot plagiarize.
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They live and inform themselves by breaking out of the schemes examined by the Tsar’s communication machine, although they have tried to block them by blocking their access to western social networks. They have been looking for ways to circumvent the walls put up by the Putin government. And honestly, it wasn’t complicated either. Because they are “a step ahead” of a regime trying to control the war narrative in Ukraine. Ekaterina Kotrikadze, news director and presenter of the independent Russian newspaper TV Rain, told CNN.
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“It is really important to understand that from a technological point of view, the new generation in the Russian Federation is ahead of Vladimir Putin and his team,” the journalist said. “They know how to be one step ahead of the regime, so they receive information all the time,” Kotrikadze said. “Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – these social networks are actually banned in Russia, but people still use the VPN,” he explained.
Parents and grandparents, on the other hand, are much more complicated to convince. They prefer to believe the propaganda and the “denazification” story. However, someone seems to be changing their mind. Those who slapped us in the face certainly changed it. Like the father of a Russian soldier who died when the Moskva sank, the reporter says. “They don’t show the destroyed cities. They want 100 million people in Russia to trust fake news and Ukrainians thank them for releasing them. By now those stories have become ridiculous,” he concluded.