Finland joins NATO, the young Prime Minister Sanna Marin can openly brush the pro-Moscow policy from the German chancellor and a little later on the Internet recordings of her participation appear, which according to some circles, especially pro-Russian – are to to discredit the head of government. It’s hard not to wonder if it was part of the Russian operation to discredit the enemy, or a simple political pseudo-scandal, like many in the world of democracy.
The material may be faked or even genuine, but presented in an exaggerated form and used to amplify the Kremlin’s misinformation. Here are some examples of damage to the reputation of anti-Russian players:
In the 1970s, Moscow tried American journalist John Barron. to discreditwhose books about the KGB changed the attitude of the world press towards the Soviet Union. KGB resident in Washington, Mikhail Polonik, was preparing publications that would draw conclusions from Barron’s Jewish roots about his involvement in “Zionist conspiracies.” Putting the investigative reporter in a negative light was meant to discourage the media community from using his work and to give arguments to Barron’s opponents to disqualify him with anti-Semitic throws.
The Kremlin is also said to hate Zbigniew Brzeziński, who was in charge of the White House’s anti-Soviet policy in the late 1980s. As part of Operation Porok, the KGB looked for topics that could serve as a basis for downplaying the role of the Polish Sovietologist. Brzeziński’s Jewish roots were sought, as well as his affair with actress Candice Bergen (as in Prime Minister Marin’s with singer Olavi Uusivirta).
In 1982, the KGB attempted to discredit US Ambassador to the United Nations, Jeane Kirkpatrick, who formulated the doctrine to support even dictatorships in Third World countries if they had an anti-Communist edge. Kremlin agents handed journalists a forged letter in which alleged South African services thank the diplomat for jointly preparing conspiracies in Africa. Interestingly, the KGB material contained a spelling error, which quickly exposed the writing as a forgery – but to this day, Moscow’s provocations are often exposed by spelling or grammar.
The French ambassador to Moscow, Maurice Dejean, was maneuvered into an affair with a woman who was replaced by the services (Lidia Chowanska, and later Lara Kronberg-Sobolewska) – demonstrating that shame is not only obtained by lying or by reinterpreting innocent facts, but also by generating new situations.
Attack on Marin
Sanna Marin fell victim to a leak confusingly similar to the Soviet schemes, in which the moral element serves as a moral delight to devalue the policies of Moscow’s adversary. The analogies of this case with the classics of “active measures” do not prejudge the case – but they are used as if they were the result of surgery. The European nationalist right, so often infiltrated by Russian influence agents, cites the Finnish prime minister’s party as evidence of “moral corruption in the West.” Despite the rapid cut-off of speculation about the presence of drugs at the party (Marin tested herself), the leak of the recording also serves several other stories: that the Finnish prime minister is frivolous, infantile, and after all, Russia can easily absorb the reactions. of the Finnish resistance to the mysterious video tape (see also the text on Kremlin’s reflective management). In addition, Marin’s example can be a signal to other politicians who have sinned more in their private lives than by dancing with friends, drinking karaoke and drinking alcohol.
The following conclusions seem inherent in such accidents. In politicians, it is necessary to develop a deep awareness of the existence and functioning of the enemy’s secret services, which collect, provoke and give false information in a style unchanged for decades. Second, in democratic governments, the moral aspect is disproportionately exaggerated in the assessment of politics than politics itself. Dictators or monarchs were able to be excellent statesmen and at the same time personal rogues, in democracies it is possible to wave power with an ambiguous picture from a dance or an altered context of a private message. To defend freedom, we must also know where it has its soft underbelly to the enemies of the West.
Source: wPolityce