One Year, Fifty Films: Russian Propaganda Documentaries Spread on YouTube, Despite Ban Full-length Russian propaganda films justifying the war proliferate on YouTube, despite the platform's ban on Russian state-funded media "We hear that we started the war in Donbass, Ukraine—No." Russian President Vladimir Putin says grimly to the camera, flanked by the colors of the Russian flag. "It was unleashed by the collective West, which organized and supported the unconstitutional armed coup in Ukraine in 2014, and then encouraged and justified genocide on the people of Donbass." This clip — in which Putin advances blatant misinformation about the origins of...