The Kremlin has launched a large-scale propaganda war to turn the Russian population into the thinking of the necessity to start a “great war” as they have accused the EU of inciting “neo-Nazi ideology” across Europe.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has said in their latest report that Russian authorities have promoted narratives to militarise their population, RBC-Ukraine reported.
Russian state journalist Pavel Zarubin held an interview with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergie Lavrov on Sunday, he was asked over EU leaders objecting to attend the 9 May Victory Parade in Moscow.
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The Russian Foreign Minister accused the EU of inciting “neo-Nazi ideology across Europe and warned that Russia “will make every effort to ensure that this ideology does not raise its head,” and insisted Russia will destroy Nazism “once and for all.”
The ISW said that this narrative is part of a long-standing propaganda campaign similar to the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany and the mythos of the so-called “Great Patriotic War” in an attempt to rid the Western world of NATO.
The ISW report states, “The Kremlin has previously appealed to the mythos of the Great Patriotic War to persuade the Russian population that their increasing social and economic sacrifices for the Russian war effort in Ukraine can help achieve overwhelming victory.”
The ISW analysts added, “The Kremlin is increasingly employing the same playbook that it used against Ukraine towards Finland and former Soviet states, including Estonia and Moldova, to justify its attempts to control independent countries and set informational conditions for possible future Russian aggression.”
