• @[email protected]
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    612 days ago

    I used to watch this back in the day but there were persistent rumours that it was state propaganda of some kind. I don’t see how exactly it is meant to work but it’s credible that Russia was active on YouTube and social media at the time. Anyone know?

    • @nawa
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      10 days ago

      The organizer of these raids is Nashi (means something like Our Own Kind in Russian, not in a racist way, but like our own close-minded people) which was basically a youth wing of the United Russia party. They don’t do anything without the purpose of state propaganda.

      And also, if you watch them all, you can see that in a number of these videos, the activists are definitely pushing too hard and being assholes themselves when the driver was not really even pushing back and could just move their car easily, just to get rage views.

    • @WhatAmLemmy
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      -111 days ago

      Why would this be state propaganda? How would the Russian plutocracy benefit from this?

      • @[email protected]
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        310 days ago

        The politics in these videos is very interesting and regional shit I don’t really understand comes up a lot. There’s a lot of “things are better now, the cops are no longer corrupt”, there’s a bunch of messaging I can see but not really contextualize.

      • @BigPotato
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        111 days ago

        Everything that promotes another country is propaganda.

        Everything that promotes my country is just the truth.

        Everything that makes another country look bad is the truth.

        Everything that makes my country look bad is propaganda.

        • @abigscaryhobo
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          110 days ago

          We are winning the war with Eastasia

          We have never been at war with Eastasia

      • CyberTailor
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        110 days ago

        Channelling discontent in some way, with a bit of classic divide & conquer