Disinfo: By planting alien moral foundations, West destructs national identity of other states

Summary

[Russia's] Western partners, as usual, are proclaiming their moral supremacy, setting aside the basic rules of politeness, trying to subjugate the world by replacing international law with a world order they have invented based on certain rules. They interfere in the social processes of other states, sowing foreign intellectual-moral bases there, thus contributing to the destruction of national identity and traditional values.

Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative portraying the West as a decadent, depraved and immoral actor fighting against traditional values and endangering societies.

The idea of Moscow being the protector of traditional values is not new and is part of the notion of Moscow being the Third Rome.“Threatened values” is one of the most common narratives used by pro-Kremlin outlets. The narrative is adapted to a wide range of topics and is typically used to discredit liberal Western attitudes about the rights of women, ethnic and religious minorities and LGBTI groups among others.

This article also contains the recurrent pro-Kremlin narrative that Western liberalism seeks to impose the West’s decadent culture and model of society on the rest of the world.

The claim that the West is introducing "alien mental and moral foundations" is likely referring to the fact that most of the world community demand that Russia and some other post-Soviet countries fulfil their obligations as members of the UN, the Council of Europe, the OSCE and other international organisations, as well as their own legislation.

Read similar cases claiming that feminist and gender theories are used by the West to undermine the cultures and the governments of countries based on traditional patriarchal values, that liberalism leads to the total loss of national sovereignty and to world government, that zombification, immorality, hedonism and satanism are spreading among youth in the Post-Soviet nations influenced by Western science, and that Bible will be banned soon in Europe.

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  • Reported in: Issue 245
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 26/04/2021
  • Article language(s) Armenian, Russian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Russia
  • Keywords: West, Western values, European values, Destabilising Russia
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Disproof

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The United States was behind the two loudest revolutions in Ukraine - the Orange one of 2004 and the coup of 2014. In both cases, the US tactic was to support the right-wing movement and lead Ukraine into a war with its neighbour Russia.

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Disproof

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Disproof

The claim is part of an emerging pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative surrounding the 2014 fatal explosion at an ammo depot in Vrbetice, Czechia and the suspected role of Russia's GRU agency in the incident.

There is no evidence suggesting that the accusations against Russia are part of an international conspiracy to rig the elections in Germany, a country boasting one of the freest and most transparent electoral systems in the world.