On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin announced live on Russian television his decision to invade Ukraine to “denazify” the country. A year later, the conspiracy still has its eyes riveted on Ukraine, and according to her each event is only a staging, a fake orchestrated by the West and the “Nazi junta” in power in Kiev.
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Frowning, seated behind his austere office in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin announces his decision to invade Ukraine live on Russian television. “I have decided to carry out a special military operation, the purpose of which is the protection of people who, for eight years, suffered the abuses and genocide of the kyiv regime”, said the head of the Kremlin. The obsidional, paranoid and threatening dimension of the speech very clearly announces the offensive: Vladimir Putin talks about the “madness” of the “creation” of Ukraine, of “unfairness” what constitutes his departure from the Soviet Union, speaks of “betrayal of our common values”refers to Ukraine as a security threat to Russia.
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There followed many facts for which the conspiracy machine ran at full speed, such as the bombing of Mariupol and its pregnant women, seen as a manipulation for Sergei Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Alexei Meshkov, Russian Ambassador in France. Actors of crisis, revisionism in real time, this multiplication of narratives intended to create a smokescreen around proven facts is the keystone of Moscow’s discourse, which is not intended only for the international community, but above all for its population.
In March 2022, Russia accused Washington and kyiv of running laboratories intended to produce biological weapons in Ukraine. Return on these biolabs which then become the obsession of the plotters. A symptomatic event of the rocking of the complosphere which adhered to the narrative linked to Covid-19.
“War in Ukraine: a year of conspiracy theories in the service of propaganda”, this is the 43rd episode of Complorama with Rudy Reichstadt, director of Conspiracy Watch, and Tristan Mendès France, lecturer and member of the Observatory of conspiracy theorist, specialist in digital cultures. A podcast to be found on the franceinfo site, the Radio France application and several other platforms such as Apple podcasts, Podcast Addict, Spotify or Deezer.
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