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A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories

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Re: A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories

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That is one one-sided anti-propaganda-propaganda piece. Let's not pretend that any government does not do the same to others, eh?

Governments do this, almost everywhere. But the Russians have been mastering these techniques for over a century now, and Maskirovka is a significant aspect of Russian military doctrine, which we in the West - while we are tuned into our own variety of it (the Pentagon are really good at this too) - are not necessarily prepared to understand, especially the Russian variant, completely:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_deception

It has relevance to us here on HN because after all, these same techniques can be de-weaponized and re-industrialized, and such actions have legitimacy in the marketing world in which we all play. It is indeed wise to learn the variants of deception that major governments - and other world-oriented bodies - enact upon us, the populace.

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