⚡️Zelenskyy came out with URGENT STATEMENTS to Ukrainians! Something happened that no one expected - War & Politics 24

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9. In a word, yes, he is that good

A friend of ours was chief Russia (Moscow-based, but went everywhere) news correspondent for a major German radio network. He’s back now, but his Russian girlfriend can’t emigrate here, and he agrees that she probably shouldn’t. She speaks only Russian and would be miserable living here.

So, they speak only by phone. The calls are monitored, so he is careful, but he says it is obvious that she knows only that which Putin wants her to.

We visited them 25 years ago in Moscow, and it was clear from the local news reporting in which way things were already headed. Moscow is a huge city, so he took us almost everywhere in his car. At 23° below zero in December, even a walk across the street required a debate about taking the car or not. So we heard a lot of local radio. My wife, unfortunately, understands no Russian, but she got to see and hear the German version of Soviet media because the socialist regime in East Berlin was on 24/7 when she spent a couple of years doing her social work training in West Berlin. It was very educational, seeing what the socialists were feeding their population, especially the children’s programs. Even they were nonstop indoctrination. I finally began to understand what my inlaws’ friend meant when he said someone from the West could never fully understand the brainwashing he went through as a member of the Hitler Youth. He was ten when the war ended, so National Socialism was the only reality he knew.