Occupiers opened a large-scale propaganda park in Simferopol on Putin's orders - Center for Countering Disinformation
Kyiv • UNN
A multimedia project has been launched in Crimea for the ideological indoctrination of youth and the imposition of Russian identity. Money is being spent on propaganda instead of infrastructure.
Russians have launched a large-scale propaganda project in occupied Simferopol - the multimedia historical park "Russia - My History". This was reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (CPD), informs UNN.
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It is noted that this is an expensive and spectacular project - with interactive exhibitions, digital technologies, and sculptures of Russian monarchs. Children and youth are centrally brought to this space, turning it into a tool for ideological processing.
The park was created on the instructions of Vladimir Putin and is part of the Kremlin's strategy to impose Russian identity on the temporarily occupied territories. It presents the peninsula's past as part of a "single Russian history" and promotes the narrative of "primordially Russian" Crimea, which the Kremlin uses to justify the occupation of the peninsula.
They add that against the backdrop of chronic underfunding of infrastructure and social sphere in occupied Crimea, resources for propaganda projects are always found.
"This demonstrates the Kremlin's priorities: Moscow is not very concerned about the living standards of people in the temporarily occupied territories, and they want to gain their loyalty through propaganda intoxication," the CPD summarizes.
Recall
The Mariupol City Council reported that the occupiers changed the profile of the city's museums, using them for ideological processing and glorification of the invasion participants. Valuable exhibits, including paintings by Aivazovsky and Kuindzhi, were taken to Donetsk and Russia, and portraits of "DPR" militants and Russian military personnel were placed instead.