Robert Parry to excrete a column pimping it.

very few people believe these Russian lies.

pushing this crap soon I believe.

I'd like to see them.

Channel One broadcasts in Russian for Russians. I do believe it's the one that had Yarosh winning back in the summer, not Poroshenko, and by the same amount that the virus that had infected the Ukrainian election servers was going to report had the virus not been caught.

Wasn't it the "child crucified" station, as well?

However, the counterreports will not reach Channel One's audience. It is more "proof" that the West and Ukrainians are unfairly ganging up on Russia and are themselves evil. The country can take a lot and do a lot of bad if most of the populace believes something like that.

Take Soviet times, when the populace was fairly well convinced that they had the highest standard of living on Earth, had the freest press, etc. More than one Russian then was convinced that the US was about to explode in mass riots and chuck off the bonds of capitalism because of the millions of starving people, the illiteracy rate, the lack of opportunity. By the late '80s the exchange faculty I knew were really quite cynical about it all. They showed up and lived like paupers, and during the "stranovedenie" courses would preach the official party line. They had the highest standard of living, the best consumer goods, the most open society. Then, a few days before they went home, they'd go on a massive shopping spree and buy electronics, clothes, luxury foods. "Because," they'd say at their farewell parties, "it's hard to find enough electronics or clothes of any quality, and what I'm taking back is better than anything available in the Soviet Union." And they were shopping at K-Mart and Safeway.

When faith died, the USSR died. Now the faith is that all their problems result from Western plots, corruption, decadence, and the outcome of all those Western plots is humiliation. They are the center of our world, they believe. Which means that in a warped sense the West is again the center of their world.

You'll see Putin racing to the rescue: ?time=1347012998&hash=587f254ff1592e9433555fa13eb32ad6

Sadly, he was delayed because he had to stop a meteorite from destroying the Earth:

And the bird under it is a bit strange, too.

Sid

Weaksauce, Vlad. Weaksauce.