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APPLEBAUM: Putin really specialized in learning how to make internet work for him. We see his tactics in other countries including United States. Rather than presenting Russians with single line, "Here's one narrative," Putin will present many conflicting narratives all at once. You see it in all the same...

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APPLEBAUM: If you look at Russian system, or how Trump tries to communicate in a world where there's plethora of media, lots of information everywhere, they try to sort of pollute the system. Bannon calls it "flooding the zone with shit," others call it "firehose of falsehoods." If you keep repeating things that are lies, or half-truths, or inaccuracies over and over again, sooner or later, you get people to tune out. In a world where we have so much information and so much access to so much all the time, this has been proven the most effective way for autocrats to stay in power. What's the function of doing that, and why do people do it? They do it in order to build nihilism, to build disinterest. If you're bombarded all day long with lies, and you can see they're lies, and they sound strange, and you don't understand them, then sooner or later, you'll just tune it out. You'll say, "I don't understand what's going on, I don't know what's true and what's not true, I just want to stay out of politics and mind my own business." That's what modern autocrat wants. They want you to have no agency, they want you to stay outside of politics, they want you not to be part of politics at all. You almost don't need a political leader to feed you falsehoods all the time, because in modern social media your algorithm will do it for you. So, one of the effects of modern social media has also been to confuse people about what's true and what's not true, to undermine idealism, and to make people more cynical.

Kate from Kharkiv

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🚨How many Russians been killed? How many Ukrainians been killed? Where do you get your numbers from? Well, first of all, I do know. First of all, you can evaluate it quite easily. The amount of new graves. In Russia and in Ukraine. How would you assess, honestly, the situation on the battlefield? First of all, I think that you have zero idea what's happening there. We liberated 70 villages, little towns, 70 entities have been liberated. We don't catch them on the streets like animals, like Ukrainians do. Our army is an army of people that are willing to fight. That's their own will. They were not enrolled. It's their own will. They all volunteered. Every time I go to the front line, I ask people, what's your casualties? Comparing with your enemies. And usually it's one Russian soldier, three to four Ukrainian soldiers being killed. And then there's the easiest way. We have exchange of bodies. Have you ever heard about the exchange rate of how many dead Russian soldiers have been exchanged for dead Ukrainian soldiers? Tell me. You don't know? No, tell me. Do you know or you don't know? I don't know. And why is that? Every time we exchange... Because I don't believe any numbers we have in our media. Now you're talking sense. No, this is... Finally. Finally Russian propaganda gets you. Hey, come on. Vladimir, in war, all the sides do propaganda. The Ukrainian side, the Russian side. No, but again. So you say... So what is the overall casualty number? What do you think of the death toll that Russia had to pay so far? Well, definitely it's not even close to the numbers that are given to the West. ................................................................. According to the statistics that Ukrainians are dealing with on the basis of officially published mortals, there were more than 730,000 Ukrainians being killed. Ukrainian numbers that are given is about 60,000. But I'm trying to get to the exchange of bodies that has been done in recent days. ..................................................................... But once again, never ever Westerners will tell you that on the exchange of bodies, the ratio is absolutely awful for the Ukrainians. Usually it's one Russian body for from 7 to 10 Ukrainian bodies. Vladimir Solovyov spent more than 300 days on the front lines.

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