RE: My Wartime Diary. Day 50

I agree with you completely about what attitude is shown by the intercepted calls. The pro-war demonstrations by Russians all over the world, the sneering Russians walking around Western Capitals who show up at pro-Ukraine rallies waving their Russian flags and their "Z" logos on their T-shirts, the Russian websites openly calling for the mass deportation to Siberia of everyone in so-called "Novorossiya" and "Malorossiya," Russia isn't even bothering to hide that their citizens know about the atrocities and support the genocide. But the number of people in the West who insist the intercepted calls are fake (just as they insist all the video footage from Bucha is fake, insist it was Azov and not the Russians who burned Mariupol, and believe whatever else they are fed by the underground "news" that has no criteria other than "whatever the world is talking about must be false") is absolutely staggering.
I teach online. A good chunk of my students are in China. On Saturday, 26 February I was sitting in my apartment (about 130 meters from Industrialnyii Metro Station in Kharkiv), trying to deliver a lesson regardless of the war around me. At the beginning of the lesson I apologized to the students saying "there may be some noise in the background, because of the war." One of my students (he uses the English name 'Tony') stopped me and insisted "there is no war! Russia is not attacking anyone! That's lies, teacher! Why do you say this?" I picked the computer up, took it to the window and let the class see the artillery shells and rockets that were raining down around my apartment for 35 seconds and then took the computer back to the inside room and asked "so Tony, what were you saying?"
Tony's response was "teacher, those are only fireworks."
...Now, Tony is a highly indoctrinated Chinese teenager (meaning he has been fed a steady diet of Russia's lines from day 1, more-so even than most Chinese because his parents are Party members) and the plain truth is the kid wasn't the brightest crayon in any box even to begin with, so he is definitely a stand-out. But I use this example to say "yes, there are people in this world dumb enough to believe anything." And sadly, there are a lot of them in the West. I've had plenty of people right here on Hive try to tell me I should "stop echoing to Western-Warmongering-Propaganda" when I wrote my account of what I went through escaping Kharkiv.

I see what you mean now, and it is really bad. We raised a generation of people controlled by a button on the TV remote control.

People don't need to think critically, compare facts, use logic and common sense, study history. It's boring and long. It is much easier to eat chewed food.

I first realized how terrible propaganda can be in February 2014. From the large windows of our office, I saw Berkut chasing unarmed people down Instytutska Street in Kyiv. I saw with my own eyes how an armed bastard beat a man on the head with a club. He beat the poor fellow until he fell. And then, a journalist suddenly appeared with a camera. The Berkut man approached the man he had beaten, tried to carefully lift him up and give him water to drink, and journalist was filming. I looked at the one and a half liter bottle of water and what he was doing, and literally could not believe my eyes. I was shocked.