Vladimir Putin’s regime has banned the Russian media from referring to the invasion of Ukraine as a “war”. Instead, they have to frame it as “an operation to liberate Ukraine from neo-Nazis.” The state-run RIA news agency has published a lurid blurb that Russia, “for the second time in its history, will shoulder the burden of freeing Ukraine from Nazism.” Readers are told that “making slight cosmetic corrections to the swastika with high-quality makeup” was “the main method of building the concept of the state in Ukraine.” Now Russia is conducting a “denazification” operation “in the interest of all of...
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