It has become clear that after recent events surrounding Ukraine, the West has re-doubled its efforts to oppress and discriminate against Russians across the globe. Whether this manifests itself through the illegal and unjust confiscation of the wealth of Russians in Western countries or through direct or indirect sanctions and discrimination in education or at the workplace, the problem has massively increased.
Furthermore, the West has reached unprecedented heights in its propaganda and disinformation and has made it far more difficult for its people to break through their firewall of information which presents itself both through overt blocking of alternative media and of subtle indoctrination and suppression of the truth. The BBC’s hit-piece on British-based academics such as University of Edinburgh Professor Tim Hayward and Dr Justin Schlosberg at Birkbeck, University of London is one of the many recent examples of a blatant anti-intellectual, disinformation agenda which seeks to suffocate any dissidents from spreading reason and the truth. As is typical of most Western state-funded propaganda, an apparent figure of authority is wheeled out for an interview (in this instance Britain’s UN Ambassador John Roscoe) in order to recite the latest lines of the official Western narrative – which happens to be the inversion of the truth surrounding the Bucha event; a truth that the British government has made every effort to suppress by vetoing an investigation into the event, flagrantly violating UN Security Council procedure and all norms of conduct in international law. The rest of the BBC’s demonstrably false reporting continues along the same repetitive and deceptive lines (despite characteristically and incorrectly claiming to be impartial). Whilst masses of the British public continue to cheer on England’s “freedom of expression” (which it has in name only as seen by the ban on RT due to an alleged lack of the very impartiality which the BBC ignores, and as evidenced by Article 10 of the Human Rights Act 1998 which conveniently claims “everyone has the right to freedom of expression” up until it contradicts the official British narrative) and the British Department for Education enforces the compulsory indoctrination of students into accepting “British values” (as is inspected by Ofsted), the pro-Russian movement in England has not been able to fully protect Russians in the UK from discrimination.
So how is it possible to bring to attention the clear fact that all Russians and their narratives are suppressed by the governments of the West when anything Russians genuinely say or do is dismissed as “Russian propaganda”? It is clear that we should re-examine our approach and understanding of anti-Russian sentiment within the West and build new strategies upon that.
