War in Ukraine : fighting for the truth in Russia
The story of a history teacher and former police officer who has refused to teach propaganda to his students and who has become a traitor in the eyes of the Russian authorities.
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Andrei Shestakov's story is gripping and it was not enough covered by the western medias.
Just imagine a man in his thirties, a former Russian police officer, and also a former special forces officer, who later has become a history teacher, a man who has always followed the rule and trusted the system of his own country, how does someone like him can decide from a day to another to put his life in danger by saying stop to propaganda and fight for the truth?
His story - told by Reuters - is interesting because it shows the backstage of Russian propaganda, the use of fake news and its indoctrination policy sometimes led by using social networks, and which brings us back almost 50 years earlier to the time of the cold war.
This example reminds us that the domestic policy conducted by Vladimir Putin is that of terror. The same terror was used a century ago by Stalin to starve the peasant population in Ukraine and silence all political opponents. In 2022, we find with Putin the same codes and the same practices. Anyone who dares to oppose the Tsar Putin is identified, hunted down and put out of action.
Would it be possible that Andrei Shestakov's story be the starting point of a larger movement of the contest all over Russia ?
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Fascinating. I hadn't heard this story, thanks for sharing.