As of: February 4, 2024, 2:18 p.m
By: Daniel Dillmann
Comments
Press
Split
Russia's state TV is already discussing the attack on Germany.
Putin's top propagandist Solovyov has particularly concrete ideas.
Moscow – In Russia, the propaganda machine is running hot in the Ukraine war.
TV presenters, experts and talk show guests are outdoing each other with their declarations of loyalty to Russia's military in general and President Vladimir Putin in particular.
At the forefront of the media agitation is Vladimir Solovyov.
The television and radio presenter known as “Putin's Voice”
regularly speaks to his audience about the decline of the West and the strength of the Russian army in his program “Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov” on the TV channel
Rossya 1 .
Sometimes the 60-year-old opinion leader calls for the start of a third world war, sometimes for the imprisonment of all military bloggers who report on Russian defeats in the Ukraine war.
Solovyov also found insulting words for Germany's Foreign Minister: Annalena Baerbock was an "idiot," the moderator raged in November.
Since March 2022, the Russian government confidant has been on sanctions lists of the European Union (EU), Canada and the USA.
Regarded as Putin's voice on Russia's propaganda TV: presenter Vladimir Solovyov.
© IMAGO/Maksim Konstantinov
Berlin becomes a topic on Russia's state TV
Now, once again, Germany's capital received a threat in the propaganda show.
“We can destroy Berlin from Kaliningrad,” Solovyov said on Russian TV.
He was referring to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, which is located on the Baltic Sea between Poland and Lithuania - around 700 kilometers away from the German capital.
Anton Herashchenko, a former adviser to the Ukrainian government of Volodymyr Zelensky, distributed an excerpt from the program with subtitles on Twitter (now X).
To the laughter of the guests, Solovyov continued to criticize Berlin.
There is nothing left to experience there anyway after “a few large department stores were closed”.
Putin's propagandist is likely alluding to the recent closure of several Kaufhof branches in the capital - a report that apparently made it to Russia and is probably used in state propaganda to symbolize an alleged economic decline in the Federal Republic.
Putin's propagandist wants to see the Berlin Reichstag “in ruins”.
But Solovyov's hatred of the West apparently runs deep.
The moderator even ignored the objection of another guest on his own show that Russia's main enemy was not in Berlin, but was "on the other side of the ocean."
My news
Ukraine speaks of “flying garbage”: Australia wanted to supply Kiev with F/A-18 fighter jets
“Our payment card is harder”: Söder explains how Bavaria wants to eliminate asylum “incentives” read
2 hours ago
“It is questionable whether it will survive”: Merz declares his desire for a coalition – but does not exclude a party
Putin's troops are confident of victory - and complacent - in the Ukraine war
Russia recognizes plan behind NATO maneuvers: diplomat attacks Germany
Rebellion against Pope Francis: Bishops and cardinals call for resistance
Vladimir Solovyov: About the person
Surname |
Vladimir Rudolfovich Solovyov |
Old |
60 years (born October 20, 1963 in Saint Petersburg) |
Spouse |
Elga Sepp (since 2001) |
Instead, he ups the ante and blatantly threatens Germany: “I will write: I am satisfied with the ruins of the Reichstag.
That’s my approach.” “Putin’s Voice” leaves it open to whom these words should then be addressed.
(dil)