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Babushka Z: The woman who became a Russian propaganda icon

 

By Sofia Bettiza & Svyatoslav Khomenko


BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61757667

 

An elderly Ukrainian woman brandishing a red Soviet flag has become the unlikely face of Kremlin propaganda after a video of her encounter with Ukrainian soldiers went viral. The BBC tracked down "Babushka Z" to try to establish the truth behind the incident.

"I don't think they should glorify me. I am just a peasant woman. I don't understand why I've become a celebrity."

The woman who has become known as Babushka Z - "grandmother" in Russian, the Z referring to the symbol often painted on armoured vehicles - is gobsmacked when the BBC shows her photos of her newfound fame. "I've never seen any of it," she says.

The video shows her walking towards two Ukrainian soldiers holding a red Soviet flag.

The soldiers say they have arrived to help and offer her a bag of food. Then they take the flag off her, throw it on the ground and stamp on it. So the woman, feeling insulted, gives the food back to them. "My parents died for that flag in World War Two," she says, indignantly.

For the Kremlin, this was gold. Russian propaganda is rarely able to centre on individuals, and they saw this woman as a rare example of a Ukrainian who regretted the collapse of the Soviet Union and considered the Russians to be liberators. 

 

Most Ukrainians - even in Russian-speaking regions - have not welcomed the invasion, so her brandishing of the Soviet flag was used as proof that its actions have support among local people. 

And it doesn't hurt that the iconography of that flag and the Babushka resonates for every Russian who is familiar with the WWII postcard of "Mother Russia".

The Kremlin propaganda machine got to work. Within days, her image - a throwback to a stereotypical peasant woman of the Soviet era in her orthodox headscarf, felt boots and thick skirt - started to appear everywhere, from Moscow and Siberia to Sakhalin Island in the far east.

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But her story is very different from the image that the Russian media has been painting. She does not support the war.

"How can I support my people dying? My grandchildren and great-grandchildren were forced to go to Poland. We live in fear and terror."

 

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What we have is not a "Russian propaganda" (despite Babushka Z being used by Russia as propaganda), but a really twisted "BBC/UK/US propaganda"... The reporters-journalists (probably Ukrainians, went out of their way to entrap the old woman saying she supported or not the "war"?... Imagine for a second that Babushka Z says clearly that she supports the Russian invasion! She would be dead within five minutes.

 

But this clever woman did not hesitate though:

"Putin is a president. A tsar, a king, an emperor."

This is why the journos from the Ukrainian BBBBBBC war propaganda unit did not hesitate to tell us:

But Anna is from the Soviet time, and reluctant to openly criticise the Russian leader.

 

Bloody idiotic BBC.....

 

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Kiev has bombed donetsk since 2014……..

 

BY EVA BARTLETT

 Western media and politicians prefer to ignore the truth about civilians killed in Donetsk shelling

 

When Kiev’s guilt in attacks on a maternity hospital cannot be denied, it’s simply brushed under the carpet 

Following intense Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk on June 13, some Western media sources, in tandem with outlets in Kiev, unsurprisingly claimed that the attack – which killed at least five civilians and struck a busy maternity hospital – was perpetrated by Russian forces.

Why Moscow would launch rockets at its own allies wasn't explained, nor would it make much sense. 

The Donetsk People’s Republic's foreign ministry reported: “Such an unprecedented. in terms of power, density and duration of fire, raid on the DPR capital was not recorded during the entire period of the armed conflict [since 2014]. In two hours, almost 300 MLRS rockets and artillery shells were fired.”

The Ukrainian shelling began late morning, resumed in the afternoon, and continued for another two hours in the evening, a deafening series of blasts throughout the city, terrorizing residents and targeting apartment buildings, civilian infrastructure, the aforementioned hospital, and industrial buildings.

Locals say this was some of the heaviest bombing of Donetsk since 2014, when the region declared its independence from post-Maidan Kiev.

In the Budyonnovsky district in the south of the city, Ukrainian shelling of a market killed five civilians including one child. Just two months ago, Kiev's forces hit another Donetsk market, leaving four civilians dead.

READ MORE: Ukrainian strike on Donetsk market was a terrorist act

In the hard-hit Kievskiy district, to the north, the shelling caused fires at a water bottling plant and a warehouse for stationery, destroying it. The building was still in flames when journalist Roman Kosarevand I arrived about an hour after the attack. Apartment buildings in the area also came under fire, leaving doors and windows blown out and cars destroyed.

 

READ MORE:

https://www.rt.com/russia/557201-kievs-guilt-shelling-donetsk/

 

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