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uhnope

(6,419 posts)
Tue Jan 13, 2015, 10:49 PM Jan 2015

RT now putting "NOVORUSSIA2015" on their news videos from eastern Ukraine

Last edited Wed Jan 14, 2015, 12:57 AM - Edit history (1)



It's like having "Paris, Greater Germany" on a German map from 1942. Incredible.

And I only noticed it because one of the Putin Explainers posted it on DU.

Here, since that thread has been locked:
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RT now putting "NOVORUSSIA2015" on their news videos from eastern Ukraine (Original Post) uhnope Jan 2015 OP
Good catch. moondust Jan 2015 #1
no, THAT's a good catch uhnope Jan 2015 #2
OMG moondust Jan 2015 #3
I saw it coming from a mile away. nilesobek Jan 2015 #8
Maybe Putin shouldn't act like a megalomaniac. hobbit709 Jan 2015 #13
Wow. Just wow. Borrowing slogans from the concentration camps. Good catch both of you. nt okaawhatever Jan 2015 #4
Yes, nobody else ever talked about work. LisaL Jan 2015 #5
To bad edhopper Jan 2015 #6
Don't miss the Putin documentary on PBS. Behind the Aegis Jan 2015 #7
Was great last night uhnope Jan 2015 #10
Thank you for this, uhnope.. it's not "locked" anymore though. Because "not LBN" so he's Cha Jan 2015 #9
At least (most) DUers have stopped trying to believe RT was ever legit.... Blue_Tires Jan 2015 #11
yes the tide is turning, I think uhnope Jan 2015 #12

moondust

(19,917 posts)
1. Good catch.
Tue Jan 13, 2015, 11:08 PM
Jan 2015

Appears to be a Twitter account: https://twitter.com/novorussia2015

Perhaps a propaganda outlet run by the Kremlin?



Emblem says (rough translation):

Novorussia (New Russia)

Freedom and work!

 

uhnope

(6,419 posts)
2. no, THAT's a good catch
Tue Jan 13, 2015, 11:40 PM
Jan 2015

FREEDOM AND WORK! wow. Kinda reminiscent of something...
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nilesobek

(1,423 posts)
8. I saw it coming from a mile away.
Wed Jan 14, 2015, 03:24 AM
Jan 2015

That poster is continually trying to tie Vladimir Putin with Adolph Hitler with nauseating regularity.

Cha

(295,926 posts)
9. Thank you for this, uhnope.. it's not "locked" anymore though. Because "not LBN" so he's
Wed Jan 14, 2015, 03:35 AM
Jan 2015

free to post all the propaganda he wants in GD.

 

uhnope

(6,419 posts)
12. yes the tide is turning, I think
Wed Jan 14, 2015, 03:07 PM
Jan 2015

before it was accepted, then it was just tolerated, and now it is being rejected/laughed at

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