Russian SVR Chief Compares US to German Nazi Propaganda Machine
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergey Naryshkin on Wednesday compared the US State Department to the World War II Nazi propaganda machine run by Joseph Goebbels.
“Their actions have a lot in common with the traditions of the Third Reich’s ministry of public education and propaganda and its head Joseph Goebbels,” Naryshkin said in a statement published on the SVR website.
He said the United States was encouraging the spreading of fake information on the popular Telegram messaging service in an attempt to “discredit” and “dehumanise Russia’s political and military leadership in the eyes of the Russian people”.
"According to information coming into Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, the US Department of State has set the objective for its controlled NGOs to launch a crusade to discredit the special military operation in Ukraine in Russian society," TASS quoted the Russian intel chief as saying.
The US has concocted an array of primitive albeit alarmist slogans for spreading them on Telegram channels in order to sow panic, Naryshkin stressed.
"Their main message is that the ‘democratic Kiev regime’ supported by the ‘great and awesome West’ is just about to inflict a crushing defeat on ‘totalitarian Russia’ and only a massive civilian protest can allegedly rescue the country from an imminent catastrophe," he said.
The US Department of State has recommended that NGOs "do not shy away from spreading the most incredible fakes aimed at dehumanizing the Russian political and military leadership and portraying them as brutes in the eyes of the people," Naryshkin went on to say.
"Washington believes that this approach would have the best effect on the urban youth. It presumes that by ‘swallowing’ this nonsense, they will take to the streets and launch changes in Russia that are liberal-democratic in their nature and thus advantageous for the West," he added.
