Stand With Ukraine

April 22, 2025

🔴 The 17 rules of Russian propaganda.
Published in Germany by the expert Dietmar Pichler:

1- Deny everything: regardless of the problem, whether it is the downing of MH17 flight, the poisoning of Skripal or the impending invasion of Ukraine, it is best to deny everything at the beginning. Later you can always claim that you have been quoted incorrectly or that the truth is different.

2- Blaming others for what is being done: blaming others for your own actions, such as accusing Ukraine of planning a large-scale attack or for shooting down MH17.

3- Demonizing the victim: Painting your opponent as a villain, using made up or exaggerated examples to support your own statements. This can lead to a decrease in solidarity with the victim and even sympathy for the attacker.

4- Play the victim, even if you are the aggressor: claim that you have been betrayed by the West, that Ukraine has become anti-Russian, and that no one respects your security interests. This narrative serves to justify your actions and relatable the victim’s suffering.

5- Know your target audience: adapt your propaganda to specific groups, such as right-wing extremists or left-wing radicals. Use topics like “traditional values” or “the fight against western imperialism” to appeal to these groups.

6- If you can’t convince, create confusion: flood the information space with alternative realities, making it difficult for people to distinguish reality from fiction.

7- Spread not one lie, but many: it creates a multitude of false narratives, making it difficult for people to follow the truth.

8- Motivate others to spread your lies: Encourage others to spread your propaganda, using social media to make it “viral”. It’s important to have credible sources that get your message across, even if it means paying for them.

9- Amplify the voices that share your propaganda: Once you’ve identified the “useful idiots” or paid to spread your narrative, offer them a platform to reach a wider audience.

10- Make ridiculous stories more plausible: by spreading out whimsical statements, you can make even the most subtle lies seem more believable, compared to,

11- When it’s hard to deny, play the “whataboutism” card: distract from the issue in question by raising irrelevant arguments, such as “What about Iraq? “or” What about the Cuban Missile Crisis? “. The famous logical fallacy of the fantastical argument.

12- Repeat your narrative until your audience learns it by heart: ensure your message is repeated frequently so that it echoes in people’s minds.

13- Be aware that less-informed people are more susceptible to misinformation: people with limited knowledge of a topic are more likely to believe false information.

14- If your made-up content evokes emotion, it’ll spread wider: use sensational, emotional stories to grab people’s attention and make your propaganda more shareable.

15- Convey to your audience the feeling of being part of something special: make them believe they are part of an elite group that sees beyond the lies of the “mainstream media” and has access to “alternative” information.

16- Use alternative history as a weapon: distort or manipulate historical events to support your narrative, making it appear as truth.

17- When you can no longer deny, deny that you have denied: if you are caught red handed, assert that you have never said what you are accused of or that you have been quoted incorrectly.

Translation of “Europe because”.

P.S. Does it remind you of something in Italy? Perhaps some well-known journalist, politician or historian?

Adriano Bomboi

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Elaine Myatt, from Stand With Ukraine:

Here is what the former Polish president Lech Wałęsa wrote to Donald Trump after watching Trump’s conversation with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky:

“Your Excellency Mr. President,

We have followed with concern and disgust your conversation with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky. It is deeply offensive to expect Ukraine to show gratitude for the support the USA provides in the fight against Russia. We owe true gratitude to the Ukrainian soldiers who risk and sacrifice their lives every day for the values of freedom. For more than 11 years, they have fought for the country’s independence against Putin’s aggression.

We are surprised that the leader of the country symbolizing freedom and democracy does not recognize this.

We were also shaken by the tone that characterized the meeting in the Oval Office. It reminded us of the interrogations we ourselves were subjected to by communist security services – where the authorities made us understand that they had all the power while we had none. We were pressured to give up our fight and told that we were to blame for others’ suffering. Our freedoms and rights were taken from us because we refused to cooperate and show gratitude for our own oppression. We are shocked to see President Zelensky treated the same way.

History shows that when the USA has tried to distance itself from its democratic values and allies, it has ultimately become a threat to itself. President Woodrow Wilson realized this in 1917 when he decided that the USA should enter the First World War. Franklin D. Roosevelt also understood this when, after Pearl Harbor in 1941, he decided that the fight for the USA’s freedom should also be fought in Europe – together with the countries attacked by the Nazis.

We remember that the fall of the Soviet Union would not have been possible without President Ronald Reagan and the USA’s economic engagement. Reagan knew that millions of people suffered under Soviet oppression – both in Russia and in the countries Moscow had subjected. He understood what thousands of political prisoners sacrificed in the fight for democracy. He had the courage to call the Soviet Union an “Empire of Evil” and fight it without hesitation. Today his statue stands in Warsaw, facing the American embassy – a symbol of what the fight for freedom and principled leadership means.

Mr. President, military and economic support can never be compared to the lives lost in Ukraine’s fight for freedom – a fight that also protects Europe and the free world. A human life cannot be measured in money. Gratitude is for those who sacrifice their blood and freedom. We who were part of Solidarity and were imprisoned for our resistance to communism know this better than anyone else.

We urge the USA to stand by the promises made in 1994 with the Budapest Memorandum. At that time, the USA and the United Kingdom guaranteed Ukraine’s territorial integrity in exchange for the country giving up its nuclear weapons. Those promises were unconditional – nowhere does it say that this support should be considered a financial deal.

Sincerely,
Lech Wałęsa, former political prisoner and president of Poland”

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The last word goes to Mikhailo Melnik

Imperfect translation:

Tortured. Forever 39.
The story of one Ukrainian that the whole world should know

Auschwitz? Buchenwald? Nope. Modern day Mordovia.

His name was Nikolai Andreiuk. Pseudo – Temple. Senior Sailor of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade. Ukrainian. The defender. The human being. Live – until November 14, 2023 Tortured – in the colony of Mordovia on the territory of a fascist murderer.

He was just 39. Born in the village of Novopodilsky in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Rice in a large family. I was studying well. I worked at the GZK in Kryvyi Rih, kept my mother, helped brothers and sister. Didn’t have a family of his own – because he served. Because I chose Ukraine.

In 2014, he volunteered in the National Guard, participated in the ATO / JFO, and later transferred to the Marines. Was injured in 2021. They could have written it off – but stayed. When the full-scale invasion began, Nicholas was already on the frontline.

In the wide. Mariupol. Spring of 2022. The environment. Out of touch. One single letter to the sister: “I’m alive, but around us – racists. I burned the paperwork. And keep a grenade with me in case of captivity”.

Nicholas was taken into custody on April 4, 2022. He was taken to Olenivka. From there to Mordovia, to the camps. In a modern day GULAG.

Where the Russians once destroyed Ukrainians in the Soviet camps, they destroyed the Ukrainian again. 18 months of torture. 60 kilos in weight. My heart could not take it. Passed away. Died far from home, no lawyer, no sentence, no right to rescue.

His body was “returned” by rush in December 2023. But family members found out about it only four months later.

This is a war crime. This is torture. This is a state slaughter. And this is no exception. This is the system.

What was done to Nikola is part of the mass destruction of Ukrainian prisoners of war. Part of the plan to wipe the face of the people who did not obey.

Nicholas was buried in Kryvyi Rih. Posthumously awarded with a badge of honor “Mariupol. Stood – won ” and medal uoc kp ” for sacrifice and love to Ukraine “.

But a medal will not bring a man back.

We can only bring back one thing – memory. A memory that will become an indictment. A memory that is a fear cast away. A memory that will not allow you to agree with those who kill in the cameras.

Nicholas left a mom, three brothers, sister and nephews.

And this picture is after returning.

A photo that must be preserved in the future museum of racist terror, next to a photo of Bucha, Izuma, Berry.
To never again.
Lest no one forgets.
And didn’t forgive.