A Press Release from the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service’s Press Bureau:
The Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergei Naryshkin, stated that, according to SVR information, the EU leadership has adopted propaganda techniques of the Third Reich to intimidate the European public with the notion of a “Russian threat”.
Similar to the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda under Goebbels, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communication has developed a plan for a centralized campaign to instill persistent anti-Russian narratives in the public consciousness.
The plan aims to convince the European public that Russia poses an “existential threat” that can only be averted by the destruction of the Russian state. The goal is to manipulate public opinion by appealing to the lowest human instincts, arousing both astonishment at the “aggressive intentions of the enemy” in the person of Moscow and arrogant disdain for it.
The Directorate-General plans to ensure the “correct representation of the Russian question” by guiding leading European media in a “manual mode”. At a recent briefing in Brussels, these media outlets were instructed to prepare the European society for the end of the “fat years” and the need to “tighten the belt”.
The “handbook” of the Directorate-General consists of instilling the idea in the minds and hearts of Europeans that Russia is a “second-class power that has no right to dictate its conditions to Europe”. In line with this policy, the history of the 20th century will be rewritten to inculcate in the younger generation the notion that Moscow was never the victor over Nazism in World War II.
It appears that Brussels has grown tired of its own rhetoric about democracy and freedom of opinion and has unhesitatingly adopted the Nazi methods of mass manipulation of public opinion. It seems that the famous Goebbels’ principle “The bigger the lie, the easier it is believed” has taken root in the minds of European bureaucrats.