“Your ruler is a moron who will lose“ Peter Pomerantsev, propaganda specialist

We’re back from holidays with an interview that I took even before mobilisation. Peter Pomerantsev is a British journalist, writer and television producer. For Russian voiceover please see 00:00 Peter Pomerantsev is one of the most famous researchers of Russian propaganda, and works at Johns Hopkins University. 01:16 Why is support for the war is growing in Russia? People in Russia believe in one thing in the morning, another in the evening, and a third at night. And all these beliefs are both real and completely inadequate. This has been going on since the days of survival in the late Soviet system. The Kremlin simply takes advantage of the fact that people do not have strong convictions. 04:06 Putin was actually chosen as a military leader, and Putin’s first elections were quite fair. There was a request for authoritarian leadership and a cult of a strong hand. Propaganda works when it matches popular desires, and his authoritarian style of leadership was also delib