It has epic music and format middle ground between clip and video game The latest video of the Russian singer Vika Tsyganova promote your song ‘Cheburraka’. This is the name of the stuffed doll, a popular Soviet toy that reproduces the main character of a cartoon with which today’s adult Russians grew up. But the song doesn’t exactly talk about games: it’s a “special military operation” hymn putin and to the youth who set themselves on fire Donbass For “Mama Rossiya”, for the homeland and against the Nazi, gay and corrupt corruption of the West.
The video is violent, noisy. Thor’s hammer flies over the demonic foe; comic warriors wield the great swords of Conan the Barbarian; rocket launchers and tanks envelop the inhumans with fire and terror; symbol star NATO turn between their faces ZelenskyBiden and Scholz until it becomes a swastika; Gays dressed for Pride Day were put up against three key icons of the game: a old Russian Mother, A Jesus the Nazarene cross-bearing and mushroom cloud Appeared after the “don’t come here” warning. The singer sings: “Mother Russia, wipe your tears…”.
The last video clip of the Wagner group giving a speech to the Russian soldiers. And it is in charge of creating a new partition. private mercenary company. Its name is Cyberfront Z. Since last December 13, the Wagner group has been in the range of services own advertising spacewith. The oligarch’s company Evgeny Viktorovich PrigozhinThe man dubbed ‘Kremlin’s cook’ by the opposition media has a new combat vehicle.
young activist
dir-dir section related to disinformation related to Wagner It was born out of the assimilation of the Russian Internet users movement, which revived last year with international condemnation of Moscow following the invasion of Ukraine that began on February 24, 2022. It originally consisted of followers of its founder. Putinist activist Egor Mikhailovwith those of the patriotic ‘Makhaev’ blog, whose content was provided by a young man who rose in orbit United Russia movement.
Dmitry Mahaev is is deputy The State Duma Youth Parliament, where he came after a short but intense start as a pro-government cyber activist.
HE Cyber Front Z It comes out with two goals, according to its own cover letter on social networks: “Opposition to Ukrainian and Western propaganda” and “Break the digital blockade of the Russian Federation”.
But these are statements of principle by a popular association of Internet users. sites and all kinds of chat “patriotic views”. The Internet front wants accomplices, not only of Russian Putinists, but also of “comrades from other countries who see Russia as the last refuge of traditional values,” as the “community manager” explains.
“War Memes”
The theme ‘Cheburrashka’ was presented just this week for Russian Patriot’s Day, February 23, and it’s no coincidence that singer Vika Tsyganova was chosen for Cyberfront Z.Wagner’, a song dedicated to military company with some tributes to some of the mercenaries he presents as a private orchestra of musicians “born for wars without fire and any idyll”.
But neo-fascist exaltation between russian warrior This is not the only feature of the new Wagner service. It also covers more complex topics: war reports on Telegram solder repeatable on Twitter, Maps of operations in Bakhmutin a direct conversation of precise indications – “Zbakhmutka district: Wagner’s units have occupied all five-story buildings along Vatutina street”, they reported at dawn last Thursday – or an ammo train with far greater celebrations of political sophistication, animation and success. from a popular auction for hire.
The lack of shells for artillery and cars became a reason for internal criticism of the military leadership. “You have saved the lives of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people defending their homeland. You gave them a chance to continue living. Their mothers and children will not receive coffins with their bodies,” said Wagner, and thanked the subscribers of the campaign for which the company provided ammunition.
This month of February, they launched the “Media Project” to “distribute to enemy congested areas”. replace between old war pamphlets from other times. They are cartoons and jokes Wagner calls “fight meme”, to maintain the morale of their warriors. In one of them, I see Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sitting in a toy fighter that he barely fits. Uncle Sam’s hand touches his head. “Try this now,” she tells him.
was not dead
But disinformation stuff isn’t always so festive. On February 13, Wagner launched a propaganda coup. mocking the stories spread across Europe and the United States Regarding the alleged execution of traitors in the style of the Russian mafia: smashing skulls with a mace.
In the early hours of the morning, they posted the video of one of these executions on all kinds of social networks. The prisoner addressed the public and confessed to his betrayal. He was later seen with head attached to a concrete log An unidentified soldier snatched the mace and… The corpse fell to the ground lifeless.
When the dreadful scene has gone on long enough and has already garnered thousands of public condemnations on Western Twitter and Facebook accounts, disinformation apparatus between private militia released another video “for those who like alternate endings”: the executed looked lively and kicking. “It was all a joke,” he finished.