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Disinfo: McCarthyism in its worst forms is back to the US, 80 million of people are declared pariahs

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A reverse McCarthyism is flourishing in the US in its more brutal, despicable, and vulgar form. No one dares to open their mouths and to say a word. People are prevented from boarding a place, get thrown out of jobs, their mouths are shut down. Never before has the US seen such a repressive atmosphere. Eighty million Americans are declared as potential criminals and people who ought to be driven away from the society and limited in rights. It is craziness to carry out such policies against half of the country’s population.

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This audio commentary promotes a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative, questioning the legitimacy of democracy in the US and presenting it as a repressive country. This is done through false references to McCarthyism and a mixture of deliberate claims concerning the situation with human rights in the US. Among other things, it groundlessly claims that eighty million Americans, a reference probably to an inflated number of people who voted for Trump in 2020, have been declared potential criminals and pariahs.

See earlier disinformation cases alleging that the result of the US 2020 election doesn’t matter because the real ruler is the Deep State, which will kill any US president that confronts it, that Trump's supporters are humiliated and denigrated just as Russian minorities in the post-Soviet countries, and that democracy in the US no longer exists.

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Sputnik Belarus - Russian [from 01:15 to 03:20] (Archived)
  • Reported in: Issue 227
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 14/01/2021
  • Language/target audience: Russian
  • Country: US
  • Keywords: Totalitarianism, fake news

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