OTD in 1941, 8 days before the invasion, Soviet "news" agency @tassagency_en dismissed Churchill's warning of an imminent nazi attack on the USSR as "clumsy imperialist propaganda".
Imagine them doing that today again, also 8 days before an invasion.
Pirmās trešdaļas beigās Rūdolfs Balcers uzstāda rekordu, kļūstot par pirmo Latvijas izlases hokejistu ar sešiem vārtiem viena PČ ietvaros! 🚨🚨🚨
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One of many incidents that Russian propaganda desperately tries to hide.
In March 2014 in Donetsk, Russian "tourists" mixed up the flags and tried to burn the flag of FC Shakhtar Donetsk - the most popular and beloved club across the entire Donbas region.
The funny thing is they couldn't burn it.
Watch the video to see their awkward attempt and hear what real Donetsk residents said about it the next day.
As someone born and raised in Donbas, I never met a single person who didn’t know Shakhtar. Almost everyone in the region followed the team passionately and went absolutely crazy with joy when we won the UEFA Cup.
This is exactly why Kremlin media and their local collaborators always silence this story. It completely destroys the myth that these "protests" were organized by locals.
It reminds me of the April 2014 incident in Kharkiv, when Russian "tourists" confused the buildings and stormed a theater instead of the regional administration headquarters. Russian propaganda stays silent about that one too.
Yet pro-Russian trolls still come to tell us - actual Donbas residents - that "it was all organized by locals", not by Russians.
Cilvēki atrada pastkastēs lapiņas par neatkarīgo Latviju un… metās stučīt čekai: iespējams, vispretīgākais, visderdzīgākais atgādinājums par parastajiem kolaboracionistiem.
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