Pro-Russian Imperialism propaganda video targeting Obama goes viral — attracting millions of views

[DonViejo]

Source: Newsweek/Raw Story

March 3, 2015
Felicity Capon
Posted with permission from Newsweek

An online video defending Russian imperialism, which states that its intended recipient is U.S. president Barack Obama has gone viral, attracting millions of views and has even been tweeted by Russia’s deputy prime minister.

The sophisticated propaganda video, entitled, I, Russian Occupier, uses impressive graphics skills and video game imagery of soldiers and tanks, and begins with the words: “I’m a Russian occupant. It is my profession.” The video goes on to claim that historically places such as Siberia, Ukraine and the Baltic States have prospered thanks to Russian occupation, and have since declined and failed to modernise without Russia’s guidance.

After the Russian occupation of the Baltic States in 1940, the bellicose video claims that the countries were transformed from farmlands into factories and power plants making sophisticated electronic goods. “Now they sell sprats and part of their people clean toilets in Europe,” the video taunts.

The video then turns its attention to Ukraine, when it was part of the Soviet Union. “I occupied Ukraine. Together with the Ukrainians I built aircraft engines, ships, tanks and cars. I was asked to leave. Now they are destroying all that is left of the occupant. Moreover, they don’t build anything new, except for endless ‘Maidans’ and dictatorships.”

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[jtuck004]

1. That's pretty good. Sounds like us, just different countries. n/t

[geek tragedy]

2. How soon before it gets posted here by Team Putin as proof that Putin

is doing the right thing in Ukraine?

[elias49]

4. Team Putin?

What a jackass.

[geek tragedy]

5. Yes, Putin is a jackass, as are all of his despicable apologists who pretend to be leftists

You can spot these jackasses pretty easily--in each and every discussion about Russia, they always take the side of the Putin regime, bashing critics of Putin, disputing negative reports about Russia, while not once criticizing Russia's government or policies.

Don't you hate those people too?

[geek tragedy]

6. By the way, have you ever discussed Russia/Ukraine without siding on the side of the

Russian government at DU.

I mean, like ever? Ever criticized Putin, or blamed him for doing something wrong?

Ever?

[LanternWaste]

7. The 'Putin Apparatchik' may be more accurate...

The 'Putin Apparatchik' may be more accurate in this context...

[geek tragedy]

8. Putin sympathizers, Putin supporters, Putin apologists, Poot-lickers.

A lot of labels are accurate and appropriate.

A few, obnoxious folks who have a 100% record of supporting the Putin regime.

[elias49]

10. OK mr nationalist.

when have you had anything to say about the US doing something shady/illegal/TROLLING!/
US sympathizers bother me as much.
Meh.I
Never said I thought Putin was a good man. I just think we - the US - should stay the fuck out of any and every place in the world where we feel we might gain an advantage, often at the expense of ordinary people, like you and me.
But when invectives like Pootie Poots, bootlickers, etc etc pop p (kind of like you said "get ready for it!&quot it is SO tiresome.

[geek tragedy]

11. To start, I've criticized the US invasion of Iraq and US policy towards Israel.

Now, when will you start criticizing Putin for his role in destabilizing Ukraine, and also stop trying to pretend it wasn't Russian-aligned separatists who shot down MH17?

[elias49]

12. I have no idea who shot down MH17

and it has been almost a year. WTF??
When will a definitive report be ready for public consumption?

If Putin was trying to destabilize Canada, I'd feel like I had more skin in the game.
What's happening in Ukraine sucks. But I'm not privy to the facts of the situation. I'm informed by the press.
I have no State dept connections.
No NSA connections
No CIA connections...

[uhnope]

14. lol. a whole year ago. And who cares about a spreading fascist nuclear regime waging war in Europe?

How could that possibly affect anybody else?

[elias49]

16. WTF?

Non sequitur at best.
"...who cares about a spreading fascist nuclear regime waging war in Europe?" When did Ukraine acquire nukes?
(Haha. Just kidding!)
You don't think a year is long enough to massage the report on the downed flight?
Yikes. They got the black boxes, didn't they? Does everything have to be translated into Dutch first?

[uhnope]

17. your flippant attitude, sir, about the increasing fascism in the expansionist regime of Putin

does not bode well, and neither does your flippancy at the horror of Putin's recklessness resulting in an airliner being shot down, or your apparent glee that a ransacked crash site in a war zone has given Putin a sickening cynical & implausible deniability.

[elias49]

18. Consider me chastised !!

All hail the omniscience of uh, nope!

[Blue_Tires]

24. So what does your cabal officially request to be called?

?

[ColesCountyDem]

3. Leni Riefenstahl made great films.

Your point?

[Jack Rabbit]

9. Very interesting

Yes, that's an apology for imperialism. We can even hear that from American imperialists here. Think of all the wonderful things we did for Native Americans, Vietnamese and Iraqis. Where would our Latin American neighbors be without us?

There is no such thing as a good empire. Imperialism is as morally reprehensible as the slave trade. In the latter, the labor of an individual is taken by force because those taking it are "better" than the slave laborer. In the former, the natural resources of an entire nation is expropriated by force because the "civilization" of the occupying power is "better" than that of the colonized nation. It is simply racism used to justify grand theft. Anyone who watches that video and claims not to see that message is either kidding himself or a liar.

The target of this video is not Obama or the Americans who support him or even the Americans who oppose him. It is the Russian people themselves, who must be sold on the idea of empire after getting kicked in the teeth in Afghanistan the way neoconservatives had to sell Americans on the idea after we got kicked in the teeth in Vietnam, and are again trying to sell Americans on the idea after getting kicked in the teeth in Iraq.

This won't end well for Putin. The sooner the Russian people wake up and see this man for narcissistic tyrant that he is and turn him into a lamp post ornament, the better.

[elias49]

13. But to be replaced by whom? That's the tricky part.

The Arab spring hasn't really gone as planned.

[Jack Rabbit]

21. Let's let the Russians decide.

Everybody else fucked up choosing the leader.

The Boyars picked the Romanovs, and the Romanovs spent 300 years fucking up .

The Romanovs were succeeded by a provisional government that, in a moment of desperation, armed the Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks fucked up when they allowed Stalin to succeed Lenin. In case you haven't noticed, Stalin was a a narcissistic dictator in a era of narcissistic dictators; he starved the Ukrainian peasants, constructed a police state and came close to handing the Nazis world domination on a silver platter. I'd say that Stalin was a fuck up.

The Bolsheviks collapsed and the best thing that emerged was a corrupt, drunken fuck up named Boris Yeltsin who was dominated by the professionally fucked up IMF. Almost as he breathed his last, he rsigned and handed the ball to Vladimir Putin. He thinks he can lend Greece money to restructure their debt; that would be great if he could, but somebody forgot to tell Putin that his currency is worthless.

Since everybody else has fucked up, I think it would be a good idea if the people chose a leader. I'm sure they can choose a leader do better than the ruling class ever did.

[uhnope]

15. I have Russian friends who say Putin is afraid to leave the presidency because he will go to prison

Such are the internecine politics in Moscow. And if Putin can put his billionaire opponents into prison (like Khodorkovsky), they can do the same to him

[Blue_Tires]

19. I can guess a few DUers who that vid would be popular with...

[uhnope]

20. the logic of the imperialist, the fascist--and a total lie

Russia stole from every place it controlled or occupied, from Latvia to Czechoslovakia. Putin has been busy stealing from the Russian people for 20 years now, and he's one of the richest men on the planet because of it.

And wow--now Putin's Russia is accusing other places of being a dictatorship?

[Alhena]

22. "I'm an aggressive and bloodthirsty monster! Be afraid!"

Seems the Russians actually embrace being the bad guy. Not aware of any other country today that openly advocates taking other countries' land and annexing it as a "birthright."

[Adrahil]

23. Should title that video "Borscht Eater's Burden".

But hey, at least this guy is honest unlike the mealy-mouthed liars in the Kremlin.