Here’s why Putin’s tyranny is invisible inside Russia | Opinion
Participants pose for a photo with a poster with the image of Russian President Vladimir Putin prior to the ''Glory to the Defenders of the Fatherland'' concert, a day before the Defender of the Fatherland Day, a holiday honoring Russia's armed forces at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s senseless and brutal war in Ukraine has shaken the world.
The outrage, suffering, losses and economic costs rendered by this war have also been significant for Russian society. But for now, they remain under the surface of public discourse. Putin’s government has gone to great lengths to hide these costs from the Russian people. As the death spiral will reshape Russia in the coming months, this façade will become impossible to keep up.Since the early days of his rule, Putin has systematically relied on censorship, repression and propaganda to control information and shape the public narrative in Russia. For two decades, he has silenced anti-war voices with a relentless campaign to suppress dissent.
The Kremlin vigilantly tracks the activities of soldiers’ mothers groups and censors their public appearances, while staging fake photo-ops with grateful widows and mothers of fallen soldiers who are compensated with cars, firewood and fur coats, as multiple
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