“Ukraine’s intelligence service says it thwarted a Russian plot to blackmail a local teenage girl into blowing up a police building by threatening to make public intimate pictures on her phone.”
“Ukraine’s intelligence service says it thwarted a Russian plot to blackmail a local teenage girl into blowing up a police building by threatening to make public intimate pictures on her phone.”
I’m rewatching the handmaid’s tale right now, and that show goes into the psychological impact of living in an inhumane society. Basically (and to put it simply), it makes it difficult to be a good person, and difficult not to become a bad person, reflected in the acts people will do or not do, even if not due to evil intent but eg. simply to follow orders, to survive, or to escape their trauma.
So I’m interested in how Russians are able to keep their humanity, sense of decency etc, knowing what their country is doing to people. Then there’s the generational impact of their past, the soviet union etc. How many people can resist that pressure?
Similar in Israel/zionists where some people are barbaric, others allow evil to happen/make excuses and a relative few try to fight it.
I honestly don’t know the answer and I would like to, but Russia is a big place and easy to silo people and feed them propaganda. I wonder what some of them get and accept as true?
If you talk to some of the Russian trolls, even here, if you believe what they say, they’re very much brainwashed. Think how Putin banned the war from even being named truthfully - they have to call it a special military operation. The truth in Russia is whatever Putin decides, their media is totally under his control, so that people have to have access to Western news to have any idea of the truth. Maybe its also easier for them to believe Putin, since they’ve been so beaten down over time, the older ones especially are probably too confused and hopeless to be interested in the truth. I think this was done deliberately by a propaganda mastermind named surkov.