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2023-11-04 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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'Don’t read the damn Telegram.' What is the Ukrainian Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council afraid of?
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Denis Davydov
[REGNUM] The desire of the Secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Alexey Danilov to ban the Telegram messenger is quite natural for the political traditions of a free, democratic country that professes European values.
At first there was a long story about persecution and the subsequent closure of television channels, which were not exactly opposition or pro-Russian, but simply allowed themselves to give different points of view. All minimal opposition parties were treated in exactly the same way. They started with the communists under the pretext of fighting the terrible past, and ended with direct repressions with the destruction, in principle, of any dissent. As it happened, for example, with the harmless Kiev intellectual Dmitry Dzhangirov, who was simply taken from his home to an unpleasant place, where access to all his resources on the Internet was taken away, immediately starting there patriotic broadcasting of the most obscene kind.
The same thing was done with a single telethon, to which all the remaining channels, already broadcasting pretentious nonsense, were connected without further ado. But in order to exclude the very possibility of deviation from the given course, it was better to keep a tight grip on the airwaves: everyone knew that TV was the main source of information for the residents of Ukraine. Whoever owns the telecom rules the world. All the shock workers of decommunization came from Pioneer-Komsomol childhood and were simply unable to come up with anything else.
Therefore, it is completely logical that the monopoly on television led to a well-known result: the population began to increasingly listen to “enemy voices.”
A recent USAID-Internews poll found that the telethon has lost nearly half its audience in 2023, and the number of people tuning in daily has dropped threefold from last year. Only 11% named it as the main way to learn about what is happening in the world, and the total audience of regular viewers is 28% of the total number of respondents.
At the same time, telegram, which Danilov proposes to ban, is the main source of information for Ukrainians. According to a KIIS survey, 63% use it, and 41% consider it the main source of information. In second place is YouTube - 40% use it, 8% consider it the number one source. And against the backdrop of this failure, some hotheads in the president’s office have almost decided to do the unthinkable: to again allow Ukrainian TV channels to produce unique content.
Which, however, will look very funny against the backdrop of total censorship and an extremely limited number of “talking heads.” All TV presenters have learned the reliable trick “you need to include Gordon, he’s well watched,” which means that Dmitry can simply break into a dozen little Gordons. And the effect of watching ten telethons instead of one will be approximately the same.
Now about the ideological component through the prism of global politics.
How is TG harmful for the Ukrainian authorities? As the Secretary of the Security Council, who does not use it, wisely noted, “Telegram is a system of influence where people start promoting certain things for money. It's not about journalism, it's about influence."
We are talking about a tool that works primarily in “our” space; in the six largest CIS countries there are more than 4.5 billion subscribers (one person can be subscribed to many channels). The most popular topics on Telegram are news (82%), followed by entertainment and politics (59%). Here we have a successful combination of audiovisual content and texts, including long and smart ones. At the same time, neither the States nor Europe use the messenger to promote their agenda: the Ukrainian narrative is simply drowning in this sea.
His more familiar space is extremist Facebook, where all alternative opinions are thoroughly banned and any attempt to oppose official propaganda is rooted out with fire and sword. A case in point: when creating a fake Telegram channel for the leader of one of the banned Ukrainian parties, 170 thousand people subscribed to it in one day. On FB, his profile is blocked for users from Ukraine - it is visible only through a VPN.
Meanwhile, on the eve of a difficult winter, the “peremogi” project began to quickly flow into “zrada”. The wheel of the conspiracy is completing another turn, as indicated by many events - from Zaluzhny’s article to Arestovich’s public bucking.
The Ukrainian regime is on the verge of difficult decisions.
But to admit that everything has failed and the great cause of destroying Russia looks somehow completely hopeless, tantamount to suicide. The same Zelensky (as, obviously, Danilov) understands that if the decision to surrender is made in Kyiv on their own, they will simply be demolished. The patriotic core with a completely leaking roof has not gone away; it has enough determination and weapons to insist on a war “to the bitter end.”
It’s another matter when the signal about the threat comes from outside. Here we can refer to the fact that the strategic partners, whom we defended without sparing our lives, betrayed and drained the heroic Ukrainian people. They write nasty articles in Time magazine. Capitalism with a bestial grin demands a business plan for war, and with a calculated investment for every million dollars allocated. They don’t provide air defense, nor do they provide aircraft. We are trying our best, wild hordes from the east are pouring into the Ukrainian black soil by the thousands, but you understand that our own strength is not enough. Others are to blame for our hopeless situation.
Now imagine how this can be effectively distributed to the audience through television that no one watches? In telegram, such a trick simply will not work; there the signal is broadcast in a completely different way: no matter how much you give, you will lose everything in vain; corrupt officials steal aid; Western weapons were sold to the Palestinians; no one wants to fight; boys die, and families are not paid; Russian-speaking and Orthodox Christians have been humiliated and continue to be humiliated, so why fight? the elves are more to blame than the orcs and so on. “If there were no Maidan, there would be no war.”
They have long openly laughed at any reports from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense about repelled attacks and downed “mopeds.” A very bad laugh. A vivid report of the destruction of a pickup truck “from Vorogama” by an FPV drone suddenly spreads across an audience of millions with the shock of the fact that prisoners of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were actually sitting in the back. And it’s no longer possible to shut anyone up here. And reading longreads about the prospects of Ukraine in a global context is much more interesting than looking at its globe on a blue screen. Even the stupidest people deeply understand that the Universe does not revolve around their desires.
The information background in the cart is, without any jokes, a threat to the national security of Ukraine, for which the former Russian-speaking Luhansk resident Danilov is responsible. After all, the current ugly form of the state was largely created due to the fact that from unsuccessful attempts to compete with intelligence and creativity, determined people moved on to the destruction of what prevented them from gaining full power in the country. There is no need to create anything more interesting and better; it’s easier to kick them into the “side of the world” and chain them to the battery there.
They would like to use the same logic to frame the new case “the whole world is no longer with us.” Although this is unlikely to happen. Now we will be able to observe a new, unique Ukrainian experience.
If previously the country was led from the outside, and someone resisted inside it, now any political alternatives will also come from outside. External presidential candidates, external Ukrainian parties and public organizations, external citizens who are asked to somehow vote in elections that are appointed by external forces. External media that convey information about what is actually happening in the country and around it. Even the basis of all budgets is human transfers from abroad and foreign loans with donations.
“External Ukraine” is already larger than internal Ukraine, and if the borders are opened, it will spread throughout the world like the Jews after the Jewish War and the destruction of the Temple. Time will pass, and there will be no such force that could bring everyone together again “on our own, God-given land.” Neither external nor internal.
And all that Danilov can now do, based on the results of the enormous work that led to such a wonderful result, is not to read the damned Telegram, which reminds him of this.
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