So I decided to find out what the news were on Putin’s disappearance and turned on the Russian TV. The images I saw were weirdly familiar but it was hard to place them because they were not what I expected.
Soon it became clear that these were, indeed, images of the protests in Ferguson. For the next 10 minutes I stared at the images of Ferguson on Russian TV. There was no commentary to accompany the footage.
The Russians are working hard to maintain the myth of the mysterious Russian soul.
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What? Why?
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My guess is that this part of the “Look how horrible things are in the US” campaign. It’s been going on for decades but doesn’t seem to get old.
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Isn’t this just a new version of “А у вас негров линчуют”?*
With Russia turning more and more into a Neo-Soviet state it makes sense that old debating techniques would be revived as well.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
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I still remember the time when I thought this was a respectable argument. And now it’s all coming back and in such an identical way. And it’s like nobody inside the country sees the similarities.
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