NYT “Classic in Ukraine, runaway without resistance in Korea”
A diagnosis was made on the 24th (local time) that the repressive rule of Russian President Vladimir Putin (pictured) has become more intensified than before the war, ahead of one year of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The New York Times (NYT) said on the 19th, “Russian forces are struggling without achieving their goal of occupying Ukraine, but inside Russia, President Putin has changed Russia into the image he wants with almost no resistance over the past year.” told
At the Museum of the Fatherland War in Moscow, which commemorates the defeat of Nazi Germany during World War II, the NATOzism exhibition, which compares the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to Nazism, is being held. NATO was created for Western world domination, and the Ukrainian government is committing genocide once morest the Russians.
A propaganda war is going on at the school to justify the invasion of Ukraine. All elementary, middle, and high schools have been holding national flag-raising ceremonies and national anthem ceremonies since last September. A campaign to make candles for veterans is also underway. Sergey Chernyshov, who runs a private school in Novosibirsk, Siberia, said anyone who complains regarding the candle-making campaign is accused of being a “Nazi” or a “Western accomplice.”
Even in everyday places, the atmosphere to be wary of criticism of the war is spreading. Last month in Krasnodar, southern Russia, a married couple criticizing the war while eating at a restaurant were arrested following another customer overheard their conversation. The Washington Post (WP) reported that they were forcibly dragged off the bus by the police.
After the invasion, the activities of liberal forces in Russia, including Russian human rights groups and independent media, were suspended one following another. Western companies closed their businesses and left Russia in line with economic sanctions once morest Russia. Advertisements, books, and movies containing positive representations of LGBTQ people were banned, and the sale of LGBTQ-related slogans and symbols was also banned.
Vyacheslav Bahmin, director of the Sakharov Center for Human Rights Museum in Moscow, said, “Things that were unimaginable two years ago, or even a year ago, are happening now.” The Sakharov Center was closed on the 15th following receiving a notice from the government last month that the building lease contract would be terminated.
Former Russian ambassador to Geneva Boris Bondarev, who quit office shortly following the invasion last year, told the WP that “the elite are so used to President Putin deciding everything that they know it was the wrong choice, but they don’t do anything themselves.” said.
