On 17 September 1939, the Red Army began its march of liberation through Poland. By reaching the Curzon Line, the Soviet troops prevented the Wehrmacht from entering Minsk.
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative distorting the events of the Second World War.
Describing the Soviet incursion into Poland as “liberation” makes it seem that the USSR and the Third Reich had already been sworn enemies in September 1939.
The move to invade Poland was not aimed at thwarting Nazi Germany’s expansionist designs in Eastern Europe. On the contrary, it was coordinated with Berlin under the the provisions of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Nazi-Soviet pact, which entitled the Third Reich and the USSR to clearly defined spheres of influence across Central and Eastern parts of Europe, defined in a series of secret protocols.
The pact was in effect from August 1939 to June 1941. During that time, Nazi and Soviet officials held regular joint conferences in occupied Poland, exchanging tips on how to deal with potential resistance posed by the Polish intelligentsia and military brass. By June 1941, the Soviet Union had managed to deport over 250,000 Poles to Siberia and Central Asia, murder 22,000 Polish Army officers, and imprison half a million citizens.
See here our account of the herostratic date 17 September 1939.
Against the background of the rising prices of food and gas, poor families will have to choose between eating or heating this winter.
Traditionally, tens of thousands of elderly people die every winter in Britain. To save on heating costs, they turn off the heating at night. In the morning, they are found frozen to death. In 2014, more than 40,000 people died in this way. Such deaths are expected to rise this winter.
This article is part or a recurring pro-Kremlin narrative of the "EU in decline", "the western societies are helpless and in crisis". The underlying deceptive message is that "the weak EU is forced to talk with strong energy-exporter Russia not to kill the population".
This manipulative twist appeared in an article on Europe's energy crisis. There is no clear connection between excess winter deaths in the UK in 2014 and the rise in gas prices.
Ukraine has announced that it will hold military drills with the United States amid an armed conflict in Donbas. The "Rapid Trident" exercise starts on 20 September and will last until 1 October. Ukraine, the United States and 15 more countries will participate with 6,000 soldiers.
Ukraine has been conducting military operations against Donetsk and Luhansk since 2014 when these new democracies were declared in response to a violent change of government that took place in February of the same year.
This is a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative combining the war in Ukraine, Euromaidan, and Nazi/Fascist Ukraine.
The war in Ukraine is not a civil conflict but a well-documented act of aggression by Russian armed forces, ongoing since February 2014.
French Newspaper Le Monde turned into a megaphone of primary anti-Russian propaganda. Seeking to grab the public's attention, Le Monde has once again turned to fake news about a certain Russian agency which allegedly offered aid, including financial aid, to French media and NGOs, to organise a supposed information campaign about police violence in France.
This societal and legal issue is widely covered by the French media and commented on by politicians at all levels. Instead of analysing the internal situation of the country, the chronicler of Le Monde has chosen the easy route, having preferred to seek the imaginary 'Russian trail'. In short, the good old #HighlyLikely.
As for the Russophobic food of Le Monde, it no longer claims to be Michelin-starred for a long time, but rather smacks of cheap food from the time of Emile Zolan's novel Le Ventre de Paris.
Russia does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, especially France.
Recurrent narrative about the non-interference of Russia in the internal affairs of other countries.
On 10 September 2021, French correspondent in Moscow Benoît Vitkine, published an e-mail from a small organisation called FBI led by Mira Terada (originally her name was Oksana Vovk) which was created last March by Kremlin-affiliated oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin. The organisation contacted different western media and NGOs, about the possibility of running a large campaign against police violence and taking up the cases of several victims. The same day, Mira Terada inaugurated a series of videos published in collaboration with Russian Yevgeny Prigozhin's media RIA Fan, denouncing the actions of the United States against human rights in the world.
