Russian influencers at the service of Vladimir Putin. While the partial mobilization decreed by Moscow to go fight in Ukraine faces popular protest in the country, the Russian authorities seem to have found a new relay of influence on social networks.
In fact, the Russian opposition site Mediazona has detected several examples of influential people who would try to minimize the mobilization desired by the authorities with their community.
“Insignificant” mobilization
Under the slogan “Do not panic”, they recall in effect that 300,000 mobilized ultimately represent “only” 1% of the Russian population still mobilizable, supporting their reasoning with dubious comparisons to say the least.
For example, we can see an influencer putting one of her lipsticks in parallel with a lot of cosmetic products, a kind of comparison tool between the 300,000 mobilized soldiers and the 25 million men in the Russian military reserve, according to figures from the Ministry of Defending.
Another uses a bag of filled candy, while another uses a bag of potato chips, to try to explain that partial mobilization is “insignificant”:
“A potato chip is only 1% of the whole package. 1% is insignificant,” she says. “300,000 is only 1% of the entire reserve force.”
In addition to these comparisons between mobilized soldiers and sweets or chips, these bloggers also take up the Kremlin’s discourse by stating that only experienced fighters will be sent to the field, in order to “monitor the liberated territories and the 1000 km of line from the front”. in Ukraine.
Were these women directly ordered by the Kremlin to make this kind of speech? Until now, we know very little about them. According to Mediazona, they would come from the city of Khabarovsk, in the Russian Far East.
As more and more Russians choose to flee the war, the Moscow authorities seem willing to use many means to mobilize their troops.
Source: BFM TV
