Propagandists created a secret television station for Putin that tells about victories at the front
Since 2011, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has been receiving “exclusive” news broadcasts that are not aired on public television and are produced specifically for him to conceal the true state of affairs in Russia and around the world.
Dmitry Skorobutov, the former editor-in-chief of the “Vesti” program on the “Rossiya-1” television channel, who was granted political asylum in Switzerland in 2020, spoke about this in an interview with I Gryanul Grem.
The special information project was intended to completely isolate the Kremlin leader from negative events and military defeats, enveloping him in a fictional information “vacuum.”
According to the former Russian media professional, within the state-owned holding company VGTRK, this secret project was codenamed “The Chief Viewer.”
Propagandists followed a clear algorithm: first, a regular news broadcast for ordinary Russians would air, and then the production team would rework the material for the dictator.
Any negative content was completely removed from this version, the necessary emphasis was added, and Russian reality was “embellished.”
“There were instructions on which news items to keep, which to add, where to embellish, and where to remove things, so that Putin would then be shown a perfect picture of today’s beautiful Russia. In other words, ‘Look, he’s such a good president,’” recalls Skorobutov.
The system of artificially distorting information for the Kremlin leader was launched in late 2011. The catalyst for this was the large-scale “For Fair Elections” rallies in Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square, which seriously alarmed the dictator’s inner circle.
At that time, the leadership decided to completely restrict Putin’s contact with the outside world.
The propaganda machine became so obsessed with disinformation that the Russian leader now receives even less accurate information, especially regarding the war against Ukraine.
Reports from the front lines began to be heavily censored for the dictator after April 2022, when the Ukrainian Armed Forces sank the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet—the cruiser “Moscow.”
This success by the Ukrainian military came as a shock to the Kremlin, after which actual war casualties began to be concealed even more thoroughly.
“What I’m seeing now is simply a nightmare. He knows very little about what’s really happening and almost nothing about what’s going on in the war,” the former editor-in-chief concluded.
This was reported by the I Gryanul Grem project.
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