Young Russian journalist Mariana Naumova talks about her vision of peace and points out that the Russian army has killed so many people in Ukraine that their children will hate Russia when they grow up. She explains what Russia must do to stop them from hating Russia: ‘we must go all the way’, which in Russian newspeak is a euphemism for the physical elimination of those Ukrainian adults who have survived. Then, ‘propaganda work’ must be done, children must be given ‘some stuffed animals’, “reprogrammed” and shown what rules apply in the ‘Russian world’. The most shocking thing is that this is not being said by some sinister old man from the FSB, but by a young, educated woman. Naumova uses completely dehumanising language – she talks about ‘reprogramming’ children, as if they were washing machines or drones, contemptuously reducing their trauma to ‘giving them a stuffed toy’. This interview is important because it demonstrates how demoralised and devoid of any human feelings the Russian elite are, especially those operating at the level of the public media. And this is not a new phenomenon – the emergence of a ‘new cadre’ that was ready to commit any crime without blinking an eye if it was approved by the Party was a phenomenon of Stalinist Russia. At the end, I have also included a fragment from Soviet 1985 film "Come and See" about Nazi war crimes in World War 2 for comparison...
Mariana Naumova: "We need to reprogram Ukrainian children"
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