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The Battle For Crimea Part 2
If the Ukrainian activists had not started
their recent trade blockade against Crimea, the Kremlin spin doctors
would have had to invent it. In Russia the anesthetic effect of the
“Crimea is Ours” slogan has been steadily wearing off and the topic of
Donbas has started to lose popularity with the public.
Posted by:
Andrei Kolesnikov
Gazeta.ru |
Monday, September 28, 2015 | http://carnegie.ru/
The Russian propaganda machine was forced to supplement those issues with a bit of Syrian drama and an exciting corruption scandal with the arrest of the governor of Komi Republic.
But it seems that acts of stupidity and emotional outbursts can recharge a spent cartridge. Thanks to the new Ukrainian blockade, Crimea is again a besieged fortress to be defended with military valor and patriotic fervor. The Russian government has won another chance to whip up “Crimea is Ours” sentiments. In Crimea itself residents get to sport a popular T-shirt featuring Nikita Khrushchev and Vladimir Putin and the captions “Surrendered Crimea” and “Took back Crimea.”
Given the lack of reliable electoral and polling data, it is hard to
measure the level of support for Russia and its president on the
peninsula. The problem is not really that Crimea has accepted Russia, it
is more that Russia has not fully accepted Crimea. http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=61415&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonva3NZKXonjHpfsX57uQsW6Sg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YIERMV0aPyQAgobGp5I5FEIQ7XYTLB2t60MWA%3D%3D
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