LETTER: Kremlin propaganda
Arefiev seems to live in an Orwellian world where the truth is only what Big Brother in the Kremlin tells you it is.
25 June 2020 - 16:52
Alexander Arefiev’s letter refers (“Russophobia must end (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/letters/2020-06-21-letter-russophobia-sticks-out-a-mile/)”, June 22). According to an adage, “a diplomat is a person sent abroad to lie for the good his country”. Arefiev seems to fit this depiction to perfection.
In typical Kremlin propaganda mode he uses lies and innuendo to project his skewed version of the unpalatable truth. For instance, he depicts my reference to brutal and unlawful Russian territorial piracy in the Crimea, Ukraine and elsewhere in Eastern Europe as “threadbare fakes”. Seriously?..
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