the german invasion of poland and 39 has really been on my mind to. because it s not just how putin is describing ukrainians, as you say, he says ukrainians are nation, they re not really a state. that s how you talk before you try to eliminate the nation. and the state. but it s not just talk, this is this war of aggression is also a war destruction. they ve to point about 1 million ukrainians, that s a considerable share the population. they re shooting the local elites. they re killing the man, they think are capable of taking part in military activity. they re reeducating the teachers. and the children. they re going through with this idea, as best they can, of trying to eliminate the ukrainian nation. and you re right, it all starts with top and that s why we look on these examples of how russians treat their history, how they treat their reporters, how they treat their language. and we have to learn these lessons in time. because as you say, if we talk about our own reporters,
but still, make the claim. find a threat, invent a threat or find one somewhere. and hype it beyond comprehension. neutralized the bizarreness of that supposed overhype, supposed and overhyped threat. neutralize the bizarreness of it through propagandistic mass repetition. and then go. lock her up. press is the enemy of the people. ukrainians to be de militarized and did not see fide. take, invent a threat out of whole cloth or take the smallest thing in the world and blow it up into something incomprehensibly massive. and bingo, you have the pretext for anything that you want to do. the time that we are in is the overlap in the venn diagram between stupid and scary. you are here. this kind of tactic that we are
to his murdered employees, his murdered reporters, including anna politkovskaya. in his speech, and this was in late december, he warned that russia was preparing its own population for war. and preparing its own population to hate ukrainians and not see them as human. and he warned that russia was prepared to wants launch a war against ukraine. this was him giving that speech, december 10th, 2021 in oslo. this was him three weeks ago, april 7th. he was on the train out of moscow. and they attacked him with red paint mixed with acetone. it chemically burned his eyes. he survived. but he was hurt. again, this is the current peace prize laureate. he has vowed to stay in russia, even as the russian government has finally succeeded in shutting down his paper, in
on my mind to. because it s not just how putin is describing ukrainians, as you say, he says ukrainians are nation, they re not really a state. and as china s i talk. that s how you talk before you try to eliminate the nation. and the state. but it s not just talk, this is this war of aggression is also a war destruction. they ve to point about 1 million ukrainians, that s a considerable share the population. they re shooting the local elites. they re killing the man, they think are capable of taking part in military activity. they re reeducating the teachers. and the children. they re going through with this idea, as best they can, of trying to eliminate the ukrainian nation. and you re right, it all starts with top and that s why we look on these examples of how russians treat their history, how they treat their reporters, how they treat their language. and we have to learn these lessons in time. because as you say, if we talk about our own reporters, our own fellow citizens in the s
six different reporters from novaya gazeta all killed in less than ten years. but novaya gazeta kept going. and for the nobel peace prize, mr. dimitri muratov was recognized, its leader, for the increasingly impossible work of just keeping going, just continuing to do journalism over the threat of this mist asked the sizing violent putin government and mr. murtaugh of dedicated the nobel peace prize to his murdered employees, his murdered reporters, including anna politkovskaya. in his speech, and this was in late december, he warned that russia was preparing its own population for war. and preparing its own population to hate ukrainians and not see them as human. and he warned that russia was prepared to wants launch a war against ukraine.