Sex, rumors and propaganda. Television for the mob, theater for Putin – Deutsche Welle

The woman on the screen has tears in his eyes. Galina from Ukraine tells the story of the crucifixion of three boy in her city “after the expulsion of the Ukrainian army of pro-Russian separatists”: “The boy was nailed to the information board and his mother was forced to of watching how her son died. Then he brutally murdered his mother well, “adds Galina.

This story, which is emitted and Russian TV program in July 2014 did not confirm any other witness. With the exception of Alexander Dugin, a journalist and a representative of Russian expansionism, which describe the same event on Facebook three days prior to the issuance of statements Galina. Only instead of the boy’s mother, was murdered father. Critical Russian public opinion immediately realized that this was a story invented. Most of the TV, however, is convinced of the infallibility of the Russian TV.

“The leading Russian television viewers propaganda flooding,” says the organization “Reporters without borders”.

For a television journalist Maxima (name changed ed.), it was a reason to say goodbye to the industry in which he worked for almost 20 years. Now he faces the danger, because too much says, “Of course I’m scared for my life. But I’m worried about the future of this country, when they see how much he dismissed the idea of ​​my life. This is a total disaster. “

Presenter station Russia Today is preparing to enter the antenna

Television in trusted hands

When Boris Yeltsin elected in 1999, Vladimir Putin as his successor, the new president gradually took control of the country’s television. As the last of the great trans-regional television station lost its independence in 2001, the Russian NTV. Today, nearly a dozen “federalist channels,” as they are called, either directly to the state, to trust the president, or some of the companies involved in the state as “Gazprom-Media”.

Maxim says that all great stations present viewers a virtual reality. “In this reality is one man, on which you can always rely on; a man without any weakness: Vladimir Putin! “

” The war is in the air “

In recent years, Russian television increasingly intrigued against the West; against the supposedly decadent Europe, which scoffs, calling it “Gejropa”. But in a particularly dark colors represents the old and also a new enemy, the United States, Maxim believes: “In this virtual world, everyone is against us. Other countries, supposedly once only pretended to be our friends, but we were vigilant, we reviewed them thoroughly and now we know that it is not crave friends. “

” Then we come to you “

The TV shows heavy Russian tanks moving through the Brandenburg Gate. Here and there, waving Russian flags. “The Warsaw tank T-90 arrives in less than a day. And the 1800 km to Berlin are not for the modern army any distance. Prague, Helsinki, Vilnius, Tallinn … to these cities can even be reached on foot, “explains presenter V Russian TV program.

Vladimir Putin took control of the Russian TV

Yes, it responded to the refusal of the arrival of European heads of government at a military parade in Moscow in May this year. “Then we come to you,” sneered each presenter.

“The war is in the air”

“It’s true. War is in the air, “says Dmitry Kiseljow seriously, presenter chronicles a week in the Russian television program, which is also the CEO of Media Agency” Today’s Russia “, which includes, among others, speaking on radio station Russia Today.

“What Russia has to be prepared? At all. In our new military doctrine adopted at the beginning of the new year written in 27 point clearly and distinctly Russian Federation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons, “notes Kiseljow.

The glass screen shows an intercontinental missile. At the same time Kiseljow explains that “in the event of threats to the State, Russia is ready, first, to use nuclear weapons. The decision in this case will then president. If it considers that there is a threat, such a decision may be taken even yourself, “adds presenter.

The program Kiseljowa war is a constant theme. Once even threatened that Russia is the only country that would be able to “do fallout from the US.”

The Russian television theater for president

EU Kiseljowa drew on the list of those targeted, as one of those who are “in terms of political and military “responsible for the annexation of the Crimea. Banned from entry into Europe.

“They believe in the uniqueness of the Russian people”

Television state receives more than 99 percent of the 146 million people in Russia. According to the polls to trust her more than 77 percent of viewers. “We have a generation that does not know any other reality”, says former TV journalist Maxim.

“Most of the young editors, journalists and television reporters are not under direct pressure from the top. I often heard saying, “When you work for the state media, you have to represent the position of the state.” “We are pleased to meet enforced their will, because they consider it as their own. I sincerely believe in the propaganda claims, the uniqueness of the Russian people and the ideology of violence, which they are the only correct way, because all the people in the West, and so are wimps. “

I used were democrats

TV macherzy as Dmitry Kiseljow sometimes willingly in Western Europe or in the US. Many have the property there or pay for their children to study at Western universities. At the beginning of his career, for Yeltsin, Kiseljow and his ilk were democrats. “Many know personally, and I know how they are, and how well informed they are intelligent. I put them one hundred percent diagnosis: a diagnosis of infinite cynicism. “

The Russian viewers spend an average of more than four hours in front of TV. Draws them all sorts of entertainment: sex, violence, gossip, and propaganda. Even the weather in Crimea is always better than in the Donbas.

“The mob eats everything”

A former employee of the Kremlin, who knows personally Putin said last year British “Guardian”: “He who controls the TV, also controls the country. When the communists will come to power, the country within three months turn into a communist. When the fascists will come to power, it will be within three months fascist country. ” This belief is shared by the Russian government elite.

The world of television reminded time and again in no uncertain terms that “the mob eats everything,” says Maxim. Heads TV say that they are doing programs for the mob, who exactly wants to eat. They mean average viewers and their needs. But if you talk about virtual reality that has been created over the last fifteen years, you need to understand the following television thing: That actually was not created just for the mass audience, but in the first instance for the country’s most important viewer. Macherzy want to show his supreme boss what he wants to see theater for Putin.

Boris Szumacki, DLR Kultur / ed. Yvonne D. Metzner