It is the most eruptive talk show on Russian television. Chief artificer Vladimir Soloviev is one of Putin’s favorite propagandists. From the start of the program, he sets the scene for an interminable monologue, aimed at convincing that “the attack on the Crimean bridge is new proof that Ukraine is a terrorist state”. Today is October 9. The day before, the images of the building damaged by an explosion went around the world.
“Europe got lost in its waltz with the Nazis”
On the set, eight angry men. We protest the return to normal life, in kyiv, where we welcome “all these bastards of foreigners who come to visit Zelensky”. We grumble against this special operation in disarray, despite the partial mobilization. “Why don’t we act in a brutal decisive way?” Soloviev suddenly wonders. “Europe got lost in its waltz with the Nazis” slice a little later a political scientist, implying that it will be necessary to do battle with them too, once Ukraine has had its account. We must cut ties now, adds another, “so we will put Europe even faster on the brink of disappearance”. An entire program. And Macron in all this? “He takes himself for de Gaulle”, mocks Soloviev, conductor of this concert of excesses, where each artist hopes that the echo of his projections will reach the good ears of the Kremlin.
A program in which we invite you to immerse yourself, about ten minutes. Let’s be honest. More would be too much. But it takes time to realize what millions of Russians watch every night, live, on replay, and on social networks.