[PostPravДa] The regime’s Russian press is writing today about the ideas of the Moscow Orthodox Church, whose subject is the historic General Suvorov. Clerics subordinate to the Kremlin are examining documents relating to the possible canonization of Alexander Suvorov. As we read: (…) This outstanding, extremely pious general (…) and at the same time an incredibly merciful man left an indelible mark on history.” Meanwhile, we know that this general was responsible for, among others for the slaughter of Warsaw’s Praga district in 1794, during which Czarist soldiers murdered between 13,000 and 20,000 civilians. In addition, Moscow journalists write that in China, as part of an anti-money cult, the government has begun removing “for the rich” content from social networks. So pictures with expensive cars, in luxury, or from vacations are disappearing. There is also no shortage of typically Russian content on Ukraine, grounded in totalitarian narratives, ie. : “Kadyrov confessed that he dreams of deporting Zelensky to Chechnya and throwing him in the basement.” All this is what Jedrzej Morawiecki tells you about every day. Here’s a propaganda press release from Moscow. Headlines from May 24, 2024, the 821st day since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Propaganda press release from Moscow
Foreign Affairs and Suvorov
“Poland and Greece have called for an EU air defense system. (…) Tusk and Mitsotakis sent a letter on the matter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. (…) In turn, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that sending Western troops to Ukraine could drag Europe to the bottom. The politician stressed that Brussels is playing with fire.”
“Nebenzia: UN resolution on Srebrenica genocide threatens peace.”
“Chinese social networks have started to remove content ‘for the rich’ due to widening social inequalities. (…) All posts bearing the hallmarks of a ‘cult of money’: showing luxury cars, expensive real estate or jewellery, are deleted from the Weibo, Tencent and Douyin platforms. The action is part of China’s nationwide campaign to ‘clean up the Internet’s cultural environment’.”
News from Russky Mir
“Putin will discuss with Lukashenko the second phase of nuclear exercises with the participation of the Belarusian military.”
“Moscow responds to the U.S. law on confiscation of Russian assets. The presidential decree establishes a procedure for confiscating the property of any person affiliated with the US.”
“Kadyrov confessed that he dreams of deporting Zelensky to Chechnya and throwing him in the basement.”
“Chechnya has clarified the appointment of Ramzan Kadyrov’s son as president of FC Akhmat football club. (…) 18-year-old Akhmat Kadyrov became president of FC Akhmat because he is young, energetic and likes football. (…) Let’s recall that Akhmat Kadyrov also became the republic’s Minister of Physical Culture and Sports and Minister of the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the youth of the region.”
“In the Moscow region, the summer semester of the student labor camps has started. (…) Hundreds of young people from all over the region participated in the appeal. (…) Thousands will try their hand at various professions – from conductor to builder! (…) Some students will be sent to Lugansk. (…) Youth construction brigades will also be used by Rosatom and Gazprom. That’s not all! This year, even taking under-18s will work: (…) the youngsters will become furniture assemblers and end up on our production halls.”
Suvorov a saint?
“The Russian Orthodox Church is examining documents concerning the possible canonization of Alexander Suvorov. (…) This outstanding, extremely pious general (…) and at the same time an incredibly merciful man left an indelible mark in history.”
[Note: J.M.: Suvorov was responsible, among other things, for the slaughter of Warsaw’s Praga district in 1794, during which Czarist soldiers murdered between 13,000 and 20,000 civilians].
“The West didn’t like it. (…) Orthodox Christians celebrate the Day of Remembrance of the Equal Apostles Cyril and Methodius.”
“A backpack full of grenades and ammunition was found in Moscow.”
Purges pleasing to the Russian eye
“The head of the Defense Procurement Department of the Defense Ministry, Wiertelecki, has been arrested.”
“A court in Moscow has arrested Talayev – deputy head of the Federal Prison Service of the Moscow region.”
“General Shamarin does not want to admit to taking a bribe.” “The wife of the arrested General Shamarin has declared that her husband is innocent. (…) The day before his arrest, the general met with a friend who gave him two million rubles as a loan for a wedding gift for his son. A day later, Shamarin’s home was searched and he himself was arrested.”
“Rogov reported that the commander of the 20th Army, Sukhrab Akhmadov was removed from his post.”
RIA: “Oprichnina 2.0: secret reasons for arrests at the Defense Ministry have been uncovered. Demand for valerian in Russian pharmacies has surged in recent days. The liberals are also drinking those soy smoothies of theirs (…) to the hilt and think that the people will soon see the bloody face of military dictatorship.
Monarchists, on the other hand, envision squadrons of oppressors dashing through the wide corridors of the Defense Ministry and scaring young press secretaries with their wolf heads and boyar beards.
Leftists unfurl red banners and pull out great-grandparents’ leather jackets, which still smell of gunpowder from faithful Mausers: 1937 is back! (…)
Homeland military bloggers are feverishly repeating the beautiful phrase about the demand for social justice being as ‘strong’ as ever and counting how many times the words ‘great purge’ can be fit into a single post.
All Runet repeats: It has begun!
(…) A deputy defense minister was arrested for bribery. (…) The Chief Personnel Officer of the Ministry of Defense was arrested for bribery. (…) The Commander of one of the armies of the Russian Armed Forces with the rank of Major General was arrested for fraud. The deputy chief of the General Staff, the head of the Main Communications Directorate for Public Orders of the Russian Armed Forces, and yesterday, the head of the Defense Ministry’s Departmental Executive Board for the Defense of the Armed Forces, were arrested for bribery on a particularly large scale.
According to reliable leaks: there may be more.[aresztowania] And since they can be, they will be.
(…) Well, but let’s be honest: it’s always nice to see high-ranking corrupt white-collar officials being packed to prisons. (…) It is even more pleasant to know that work on them does not stop for a moment. So let’s wish good luck to our hardliners, who are tirelessly engaged in cleaning up our country day after day.”
Purges in Russia, day by day
“In the case of the attack at Crocus City Hall, 20 people have already been successfully detained.
“A Moscow bartender was sentenced to 25 years in prison for treason. (…) Vladimir Malina tried to set fire to a railroad relay cabinet.”
“A suspect has been detained in Zaporozhye for burning flowers on the Eternal Fire.”
“Economist-foreign agent Konstantin Sonin was sentenced in absentia to 8.5 years in a labor camp for slandering the Russian military. (…) It is about false information on Telegram about the actions of our soldiers in the Ukrainian town of Bucha. The sentence will begin as soon as he is detained on Russian territory or extradited to Russia. Sonin, a foreign agent was head of the Department of Economic Sciences at the University of Economics. He now teaches at the University of Chicago.”
“The leader of the music group Pornofilms foreign agent Kotliarov will be tried for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.”
True Soviet honesty
“Yelena Vartanova: The Soviet press considered propaganda as one of its functions. (…) The dean of the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University and president of the National Association of Journalism Researchers explains: ‘For our generation, the press is a symbol of power. (…) This is what the honesty of the Soviet system is all about: (…) unlike the foreign press, our press has never considered itself free'”.
