An Illustrative Example of Idiocy of Anti-Russian propaganda

[Stratford57]

The Times, Nov 15:

A programme about a mischievous girl and a bear watched by millions of British children is accused of being a “soft propaganda” tool for the Kremlin. The English-languageMasha and the Bear has more than 4.18 million subscribers on YouTube and, in various languages, the animated series has gained 40 billion views across 13 channels.

Children enjoy watching the feisty little girl and her gentle giant protector. However, critics in Russia’s neighbouring states have claimed the series, from a Moscow studio, is part of the country’s propaganda machine. Professor Anthony Glees, of the University of Buckingham, an intelligence expert, said: “Masha is feisty, even rather nasty, but also plucky. She punches above her slight weight. It’s not far-fetched to see her as Putinesque.
Children’s show is propaganda for Putin, say critics


UK journalists have dug up a report from Finland’s Helsingin Sanomat paper, which was based on an interview with an Estonian professor who claimed that ‘Masha and the Bear’ was intended to create a positive image of Russia in children’s minds and was a danger to Estonian national security.
‘All out of anti-Russian stories?’ Times gets grilled for calling ‘Masha and the Bear’ propaganda

Meanwhile the original story seemed to be written not even by Russians.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Wikipedia

The story was first recorded in narrative form by British writer and poet Robert Southey, and first published anonymously as "The Story of the Three Bears" in 1837

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The Soviet cartoon about Masha and the bears was created last century before or just after Putin was born. All Soviet kids (having NO idea who the heck Putin was) loved it and never could have even thought that in 60+ years Russia haters would find any kind of political propaganda in it. The only propaganda of this cartoon was how to behave and to be nice.

Meanwhile, “British critics” do NOT seem to be concerned about poor American (and British) kids who have to learn about 72 idiotic genders and are encouraged to have transgenders surgeries when their immature minds are even unable to evaluate the consequences of such kind of “education”.
40 schools in England ban girls from wearing skirts to accommodate transgender students

Whistleblower teacher says 17 students in British school are changing genders, some were ‘tricked’
Votto has just posted a thread about that, I hope he doesn't mind me to use his link.

 

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The Times, Nov 15:

A programme about a mischievous girl and a bear watched by millions of British children is accused of being a “soft propaganda” tool for the Kremlin. The English-languageMasha and the Bear has more than 4.18 million subscribers on YouTube and, in various languages, the animated series has gained 40 billion views across 13 channels.

Children enjoy watching the feisty little girl and her gentle giant protector. However, critics in Russia’s neighbouring states have claimed the series, from a Moscow studio, is part of the country’s propaganda machine. Professor Anthony Glees, of the University of Buckingham, an intelligence expert, said: “Masha is feisty, even rather nasty, but also plucky. She punches above her slight weight. It’s not far-fetched to see her as Putinesque.
Children’s show is propaganda for Putin, say critics


UK journalists have dug up a report from Finland’s Helsingin Sanomat paper, which was based on an interview with an Estonian professor who claimed that ‘Masha and the Bear’ was intended to create a positive image of Russia in children’s minds and was a danger to Estonian national security.
‘All out of anti-Russian stories?’ Times gets grilled for calling ‘Masha and the Bear’ propaganda

Meanwhile the original story seemed to be written not even by Russians.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Wikipedia

The story was first recorded in narrative form by British writer and poet Robert Southey, and first published anonymously as "The Story of the Three Bears" in 1837

------

The Soviet cartoon about Masha and the bears was created last century before or just after Putin was born. All Soviet kids (having NO idea who the heck Putin was) loved it and never could have even thought that in 60+ years Russia haters would find any kind of political propaganda in it. The only propaganda of this cartoon was how to behave and to be nice.

Meanwhile, “British critics” seem not to be concerned about poor American (and British) kids who have to learn about 72 idiotic genders and are encouraged to have transgenders surgeries when their immature minds are even unable to evaluate the consequences of such kind of “education”.
40 schools in England ban girls from wearing skirts to accommodate transgender students

Whistleblower teacher says 17 students in British school are changing genders, some were ‘tricked’
Votto has just posted a thread about that, I hope he doesn't mind me to use his link.

All if those 17 are autistic and tricked by transgender activists looking to increase their numbers.

 

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Russia’s Embassy in London sarcastically recommended that the United Kingdom:
"An important issue raised by @thetimes today: How UK can find salvation from "Masha and the Bear"? Launch an Ant-Cartoon Excellence Centre somewhere in the Baltic? Place all cartoonists on EU sanction list? Clearly a decisive - and a very expensive - approach is needed!"
Russia’s embassy advises London to find salvation from influence of children’s show

 

[Stratford57]

Another beautiful piece of anti-Russian propaganda recently cooked by Brits.

The Telegraph:
A new study from the Henry Jackson Society thinktank said there were as many as 75,000 informants in London - half the 150,000 Russians who live in the capital - who are actively helping Moscow's secret service.
Half of the Russians in London are spies, claims new report


The Times:
Half of us are informants, say Russian expats in UK

I wonder if all anti-Russian ideologists in Britain are paranoiac yet? Or may be there are enough brainwashed people in the West to believe all that paranoia same way they believed the Hollywood stories about Skripals, Litvinenko and many other crazy stories which were roughly alleged?

 

[Stratford57]

The main troll farm appears to be in Britain:

Wired.co.uk, Nov,22
I was visiting a part of the British Army unlike any other. They call it the 77th Brigade. They are the troops fighting Britain’s information wars.

One room was focussed on understanding audiences: the makeup, demographics and habits of the people they wanted to reach. Another was more analytical, focussing on creating “attitude and sentiment awareness” from large sets of social media data. Another was full of officers producing video and audio content. Elsewhere, teams of intelligence specialists were closely analysing how messages were being received and discussing how to make them more resonant.

JTRIG (“Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group” )also boasted an arsenal of 200 info-weapons, ranging from in-development to fully operational. A tool dubbed “Badger” allowed the mass delivery of email. Another, called “Burlesque”, spoofed SMS messages. “Clean Sweep” would impersonate Facebook wall posts for individuals or entire countries. “Gateway” gave the ability to “artificially increase traffic to a website”. “Underpass” was a way to change the outcome of online polls.
Inside the British Army's secret information warfare machine | WIRED UK


While disinformation campaigns waged by Russia and ISIS have become common stories, little is discussed or understood about comparable operations conducted every day by Western countries. Their targets ranged from Iran, North Korea, Russia, countries across Africa, and areas within the U.K.
Inside the British Army’s secret information warfare machine

 

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Now Brits are accusing a Russian journalist in being a spy. Their idiocy seems to grow each day.

The British Army has issued a top-level security alert to all its bases across the UK, warning soldiers that they should by no means engage in any conversations with a certain Russian journalist, should one happen to approach near any military facility. The “official-sensitive” document obtained by the Daily Mail also advised members of the military to call the nearest police department “ASAP” to deal with such a “threat.”

Actually referred-to as a ‘spy’ in the British media, it was in fact the UK Bureau chief of Russian Channel 1 who had been making the report about the 77th Brigade base in November. Timur Siraziev and his cameraman were seen filming near the Berkshire facility where they had presented press credentials. Their access was denied, so they filmed their report outside and left.
A Russian? Must be a spy! UK military, media accuse Russian reporter of snooping

Independent:
British military bases issue security alert after Russian TV crew accused of spying outside cyber warfare HQ

BTW, after a BBC journalist was reporting about the same object, nobody called him “a spy”, I wonder why?

The National:
So why is the MoD all in a tizzy about Siraziev’s piece? Because, for once, 77th Brigade has lost control of the “narrative” covering its existence. Hence the almost hysterical response designed to make it look as if the Russian journalists were “spying”. This is a bid to divert the story towards Russia and away from 77th Brigade itself.
Indyref2 should not be decided by the UK's propaganda unit | The National

 

[Muhammed]

The Times, Nov 15:

A programme about a mischievous girl and a bear watched by millions of British children is accused of being a “soft propaganda” tool for the Kremlin. The English-languageMasha and the Bear has more than 4.18 million subscribers on YouTube and, in various languages, the animated series has gained 40 billion views across 13 channels.

Children enjoy watching the feisty little girl and her gentle giant protector. However, critics in Russia’s neighbouring states have claimed the series, from a Moscow studio, is part of the country’s propaganda machine. Professor Anthony Glees, of the University of Buckingham, an intelligence expert, said: “Masha is feisty, even rather nasty, but also plucky. She punches above her slight weight. It’s not far-fetched to see her as Putinesque.
Children’s show is propaganda for Putin, say critics


UK journalists have dug up a report from Finland’s Helsingin Sanomat paper, which was based on an interview with an Estonian professor who claimed that ‘Masha and the Bear’ was intended to create a positive image of Russia in children’s minds and was a danger to Estonian national security.
‘All out of anti-Russian stories?’ Times gets grilled for calling ‘Masha and the Bear’ propaganda

Meanwhile the original story seemed to be written not even by Russians.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Wikipedia

The story was first recorded in narrative form by British writer and poet Robert Southey, and first published anonymously as "The Story of the Three Bears" in 1837

------

The Soviet cartoon about Masha and the bears was created last century before or just after Putin was born. All Soviet kids (having NO idea who the heck Putin was) loved it and never could have even thought that in 60+ years Russia haters would find any kind of political propaganda in it. The only propaganda of this cartoon was how to behave and to be nice.

Meanwhile, “British critics” do NOT seem to be concerned about poor American (and British) kids who have to learn about 72 idiotic genders and are encouraged to have transgenders surgeries when their immature minds are even unable to evaluate the consequences of such kind of “education”.
40 schools in England ban girls from wearing skirts to accommodate transgender students

Whistleblower teacher says 17 students in British school are changing genders, some were ‘tricked’
Votto has just posted a thread about that, I hope he doesn't mind me to use his link.

It's obviously aimed at the malleable minds of children.

Last year in the USA, the Trump administration forced the Russia Today network to register as a foreign agent. Perhaps the Brits should follow suit.

 

[Stratford57]

Last year in the USA, the Trump administration forced the Russia Today network to register as a foreign agent. Perhaps the Brits should follow suit.

Yes, it looks like the war on truth has been declared in Britain, USA, Germany, many EU countries.

Today, the major outlets are almost all owned by six conglomerates. They can easily hide the truth or spread all kinds of lies simultaneously. And that's basically what we have been witnessing lately.

Big6:
The 6 Companies That Own (almost) All Media [Infographic] | WebpageFX

That’s why it’s so easy to spread fake news and to spin any kind of lies: once created they “suddenly” appear in all news outlets. Especially, when it comes to Russia or my home country of Ukraine, the lies immediately becomes "the truth" and visa versa. The latest example was a few weeks ago when Ukrainian ships violated Russian territorial waters and the Media delivered this story as ... "Russian aggression".