DISINFO: Over a half of Americans love Russia despite US disinformation
SUMMARY
America spends billions of dollars on disinformation and falsification. The US authorities are trying to demoralise and damage the image of Russia – it is a doctrine of anti-Russian hatred. Despite this, more than a half of Americans actually love Russia and the Russians. During World War II, the Russian people proved to the world who they were. Russia lost 27 million people in the war, while America lost only 40-50,000. This fact shows the Russian sacrifice in order to defeat Nazism.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin narrative about Western propaganda and disinformation spread by the United States and the European Union in order to reach their alleged anti-Russian goals.
The final part of the claim is connected to historical revisionism – it dramatically underestimates US casualties in WWII, while Russia attempts to appropriate "ownership" to the casualties of the Soviet Union in the WWII. In this regard, the Russian claim of Ukraine being "Nazi" is also an attempt to erase the fact that the population of Ukraine suffered tremendous losses during WWII and was under full Nazi-German occupation. In relative terms these losses were higher than those of Russia.
The claim that the USA spends billions of dollars on “disinformation” is ungrounded.
After the outbreak of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the number of Americans perceiving Russia as an enemy increased from 41% to 70% - only 3% of Americans believe that Russia is an American partner. About three-quarters of the Americans stand for further economic and military support of Ukraine in its defensive war against the full-scale Russian invasion.
The US losses in WWII were not “40-50,000”, but 407,000 killed soldiers.
See other cases connected to alleged Western anti-Russian propaganda: Deutsche Welle is the source of NATO propaganda; Contrary to Western propaganda, Russia is winning the war, and France and Germany plan to introduce Western propaganda in Russia.