DISINFO: Protests in the US will end the same as protests in Ukraine in 2014 - with Nazism, radicalism, and separatism
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: Pervyi Kanal (archived)*
  • Date of publication: June 09, 2020
  • Outlet language(s): Russian
  • Reported in: Issue 202
  • Countries / regions discussed: US, Ukraine
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US racial justice protests Protest Euromaidan Nazi/Fascist

DISINFO: Protests in the US will end the same as protests in Ukraine in 2014 - with Nazism, radicalism, and separatism

SUMMARY

The protests in the US are a symptom of a very serious social illness that affects US civil society. Americans thought that their society was healthy by different parameters, but the real information was hidden from the establishment. You can draw parallels with what was happening in Ukraine in 2014 and what is now happening in the US. How will this end? How did it end for Ukraine? An extensive corruption march, Nazism, etc. For the United States, this will end with the same Nazism, radicalism, separatism, because they will begin to divide the states, and will end with the mythologisation of this process.

RESPONSE

An attempt to denigrate the racial justice protests in the US using the recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Nazi Ukraine. The widespread protests against racial injustice and police brutality broke out in the US after the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis on the 25th of May, 2020. The protests followed several high-profile incidents involving African Americans and the police, invoking debates about racism in the US. Pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets have consistently tried to frame the 2013-14 Ukrainian revolution as a coup d'etat, and Ukrainian politics as dominated by fascist/Nazi groups and ideology. See previous disinformation narratives alleging that the 2014 Ukraine coup was orchestrated by neo-Nazis and that Nazis took over Ukraine with a coup. For more information about the protests in the US read here.

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