Moscow’s lies about Ukraine brutally exposed

Ukraine News One ^ | 26 may 2014 | Ukraine News One

[WhiskeyX]

Ukraine’s presidential elections have been lauded as a great success with record voter turnout for a clean and democratic vote which saw ‘chocolate king’ Petro Poroshenko win by a landslide and invigorate hope that Ukraine may have turned a corner.

But the election results have also underlined the breathless determination of the Kremlin to distort, fabricate and disseminate news in a campaign of demonisation against Ukraine.

Moscow’s propaganda machine hit new heights of absurdity on Sunday when Russia’s First TV channel reported that the Kremlin's No. 1 bogeyman, Dmytro Yarosh, leader of the far-right Pravy Sektor Party was leading the presidential race with 37% of the votes, with Petro Poroshenko trailing far behind on 29 percent.

The uncomfortable truth for Moscow however was that Pravy Sector’s Dmytro Yarosh and the other far-right nationalist party leader Oleg Tyahnybok of Svoboda couldn’t even muster 1% of the vote between them.

The Kremlin’s lies about Ukraine are further exposed by the performance of Jewish oligarch Vadim Rabinovych who, with 2% of the vote got double the amount of the far-right parties combined.

This in a country, according to the Russian president, where Jews are not safe and pogroms are making a big comeback.

By current European standards, with far-right parties sweeping to victory in European elections this week, support for the far right is lower in Ukraine than in virtually any other European nation.

[taxcontrol]

The Ukranians need their own rifle barrel making company and allow all citizens to own an assault rifle.

[free_life]

When have Russians ever told the truth about anything? A good gauge of the truth is believing the opposite of whatever a Russian is saying.

[DeaconRed]

Did Putin promise that you can keep your Doctor? Period.

[1rudeboy]

A good gauge was watching them whine about the election results.

[hubel458]

Others, primarily Russian propagandists and their apologists in the West, have gone even further, stating that Ukraine’s new government was not only illegitimate, but nationalist and fascist. To justify their blatant propagandistic rhetoric, the Kremlin’s advocates pointed to an alleged dominance of ultra-right political forces in the government, allegedly formed at gun-point by the “radical” leaders of the Euromaidan protests. The prime targets of the “outbreak of fascism in Ukraine” line of argument were the Ukrainian nationalist party Svoboda and the radical revolutionary movement Right Sector. Over the last six months both have been vilified and demonized – largely unjustly – by Putin’s propaganda and its western stooges. More importantly, the myth about Neo-nazis roaming and ravaging the streets of Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities was the main weapon of a mass-media campaign intended to delude the local population, and used by Putin in Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, as well as in Russia’s military subversion aimed at destabilizing the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donbass and Luhansk. All of Putin’s recent public statements about Ukraine, without exception, were peppered with insulting – and inaccurate – references to fascists and blood-thirsty Gestapo torturers in the illegitimate Ukrainian government, who torment and kill peaceful Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine. The outcome of the early presidential elections, however, has blown Russian propagandists out of the water: the core, as Kremlin would have the world believe, of Ukraine’s new fascists – Svoboda and Right Sector – received a mere 1,9 percent of the votes nationwide. At the same time, far-right nationalist parties in other European countries are on the unprecedented rise. In the most recent European Parliament elections, which took place on the same day as Ukraine’s Presidential vote, right-wing forces have caused what some commentators have described as a “political earthquake” or a “tsunami”. Nationalist parties claimed astonishingly high results in such countries as France (25 percent), Denmark (23 percent), Austria (20 percent) and Belgium (30-32 percent). These are results Ukrainian “fascists” could only dream of. Ukraine’s Presidential elections, therefore, pose an awkward challenge for Putin’s propagandists: how to explain, at least to their domestic audience, the absence of fascists in Ukraine, the crusade against whom was used by Putin as a justification for most of his recent internationally-recognized crimes against the Ukrainian people.

[fireforeffect]

Funny how the propaganda only works on western liberals.

[fireforeffect]

One must remember that to the average eurocrat or their fellow travelers, anyone who is not a transnational progressive and WEIRD (look it up)is a right winger if they give voice to their political or social beliefs. This is not to say that some of them are not fascist or socialist. Some of them are just nationalist, both left and right. But to the cosmopolitans, anyone who does not agree with them is an evil right winger nut.

[McGruff]

“Ukraine News One” - Your tax dollars at work.

[1rudeboy]

That’s ok, visit RT.com to settle your mind.

[hubel458]

What if I told you your leaders were lying to you

Is that where ‘’ little writing men ‘’ learned their trade

[McGruff]

English isn’t your primary language is it?

[UCANSEE2]

When have Russians ever told the truth about anything?

I think you are painting with an awfully broad brush.

If you mean Russian 'leaders', then I might agree with you. Additionally, it depends on who they are talking to.

Since our leaders lie to us ALL THE TIME, does that mean they are Russian ?

[1rudeboy]

I doubt that it’s yours either. At least when his phone rings, he doesn’t see Cyrillic.

[tcrlaf]

So..
You have FINALLy admitted that you are not an American.

Very enlightening, and explains a lot. Tell us, which NGO do you work for, again?

[1rudeboy]

Come to Chicago, anytime. I’ll buy you a drink, and then kick your commie ass.

[WhiskeyX]

Just drop him off on the street in South Chicago among his fellow travelers.

[1rudeboy]

Actually, I was born on the South Side. West Side, maybe.

[Corporate Democrat]

In the interests of transparency, I'd just like to point that Ukraine News One was founded and is funded by the Ukrainian-Jewish oligarchs Igor Kolomoisky and Vadim Rabinovich, who are both deeply invested into the Maidan government.

Both of them have an interest in opposing Putin in Ukraine.

[GeronL]

Putin should not be in Ukraine.

Why shouldn’t they oppose a foreign despot trying to chop up their country?