Moscow journalist Masha Gessen wrote on the New York Times blog about a new Putin's crime against the children. Putin zombifies them and fills their unmatured brains with unbridled hate propaganda.
A 10-year-old daughter of Gessen, a four-grade primary school student , visited a Russian Patriotic Christmas New Year celebration staged by the Putin's gang " The Bikers". The journalist says:
"My daughter came home looking dazed. The bikers had put on a show the likes of which she had never seen. The story, as she explained to me, went like this: the whole world has been taken over by evil - except Russia, which has to fight off the forces of doom. This global menace is personified by a woman who is the Statue of Liberty and Snow Queen rolled into one. And Russia also has an internal enemy: the Kashchey - the Skeleton, the quintessential figure of evil in Russian folklore - who hates Russia but won't let it go. If he wins, united Russia will fall apart.
To a Russian adult, this was a transparent parable, and most of it was clear even to a 10-year-old.
Putin has always employed us-against-the-world rhetoric, which the bikers apparently take literally.
The Kashchey, the internal enemy, is poised to slay is, well, United Russia, Putin's ruling party. And Russia's nemesis - the Kashchey's ally and the source of his powers - is a representation of the US State Dept (the Statue of Liberty) and Hillary Clinton (the Snow Queen).
I felt I had a sudden view right into the unguarded unconscious of Russia's ruling elite.
"So how does it end?" I asked my daughter impatiently.
"That was the weirdest part", she responded. "They said the battle is still raging and they'll tell us next year who won".
My poor child had been so thrown by the event that she forgot to pick up her bag of chocolate candy", writes Moscow journalist Masha Gessen in The New York Times.
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