How does, in this modern world of instant communication and access to vast amounts of information, the leader of any country convince the citizens of said country that the world or at least another country is out to destroy or conquer them.

Ask Kim of North Korea.

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How does, in this modern world of instant communication and access to vast amounts of information, the leader of any country convince the citizens of said country that the world or at least another country is out to destroy or conquer them.

I Think the whole world but North Korea and perhaps some other countries are thinking the same.
There is opposition in Russia but they are silenced.
A lot of independent press have been close down.
Think about it. Vova Putin has done an autobiography where he is talking about his childhood in St Petersburg when playing with rats.
He learned that if a rat are pushed in to a corner it jumps forward.
Warning bells are ringing at least to me. Psykopatic behaviour.
He is also a former KGB officer.

Russian word play, "Thank Swede for the Victory", but sounds same as "Thank Grandpa for the Victory". Was used after WWII.

You quote nonsense again, as usually.
"Spasibo dedu za pobedu", phonetically sounds (I think) as "spuseebo deadoo zu pobeadoo", where is any Swedes there? Swede in Russian sounds like "Shvead".

Hehehe.
It's not nonsens.
It was a Russian how watched Eurovision Song Contest that tweated that on Twitter.
Because Sweden won and Russia who come second and got a lot of pionts from Sweden he remembered the old saying.
Rather nice, don't you Think.
Russian song was written by some russians, two swedes and one from Australia:)
Polina Gagarina - A Million Voices (Russia) 2015 Eurovision Song Contest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBVY7Glcd84
http://www.eurovision.tv/page/history/year/participant-profile/?song=32773
•She went to school in Greece where her mother worked and thus speaks fluent Greek.
•Polina lost 30 kg after having a baby.
•Polina studied acting – she graduated from MKhAT Theatre School.

Perhaps Kazahkstan likes to join Eurovision Song Contest.
There are already non European contries in the ESC:)

швед is pronounced shved. (to us it sounds like svett, sweat.)
дед is pronounced djed. (and this like get, goat.)
Russia loves ABBA. Mamma Mia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viN428_IPEM

btw We still call Russia for Ryssland, The land of Rus:)

"Russia's information war against Sweden"
https://translate.google.se/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.svd.se%2Fgastinlagg-patrik-oksanen-om-sverige-i-informationskriget%3Ffb_action_ids%3D10204965443877256%26fb_action_types%3Dog.shares&edit-text=

Russian National Anthem in Swedish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6olLMfcJi4

The accusation weighs heavily: Russian President Vladimir Putin has political responsibility for the murder of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov.
Nemtsov's daughter spoke to DW about the situation in Russia.
http://www.dw.de/nemtsova-i-am-fighting-against-dictatorship-in-russia/a-18481716

Bend forward , Putin , you might like it, Idiot
https://twitter.com/Belsebubb666/status/604728180533018624
MatteFU‏@rinkeby is a guy living in Rinkeby a suburb to Stockholm.
People from 87 nations live there.
He commented that tweat on Twitter and in russian.
Эта картина не имеет ничего общего с реальностью. Просто смешно.
This picture has nothing to do with reality. It is ridiculous.

Of course not but very funny:)

Russian Sputnic News today. Russian state controlled news Agency to people in the World.

Refugee avalanche destroys Sweden
https://translate.google.se/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fse.sputniknews.com%2Fnorden%2F20150603%2F268752.html&edit-text=
1,157 unaccompanied minors applied for asylum in May 2015. An absolute record. Last May wanted only 450 refugees remain in Sweden.
That statement is wrong. The 700 others where not allowed to stay.

As a source Sputnic use Fria Tider.
Fria tider is classified in a report published by the National Media Council as "a part of the radical right-wing populist line environment" and is considered to have an obvious racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic content.

How does, in this modern world of instant communication and access to vast amounts of information, the leader of any country convince the citizens of said country that the world or at least another country is out to destroy or conquer them.

Ask Kim of North Korea.

In North Korea it is still relatively easy to control the minds of the people since access to accurate information there is highly restricted.

But in Russia it seems the people in general are willing to accept the party line despite having access to news outlets that more or less deliver the truth about world events.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

How does, in this modern world of instant communication and access to vast amounts of information, the leader of any country convince the citizens of said country that the world or at least another country is out to destroy or conquer them.

Ask Kim of North Korea.

In North Korea it is still relatively easy to control the minds of the people since access to accurate information there is highly restricted.

But in Russia it seems the people in general are willing to accept the party line despite having access to news outlets that more or less deliver the truth about world events.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html

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How does, in this modern world of instant communication and access to vast amounts of information, the leader of any country convince the citizens of said country that the world or at least another country is out to destroy or conquer them.

Ask Kim of North Korea.

In North Korea it is still relatively easy to control the minds of the people since access to accurate information there is highly restricted.
But in Russia it seems the people in general are willing to accept the party line despite having access to news outlets that more or less deliver the truth about world events.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html

Yes. The trolls lair:)
Internet Issledovanija.
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=76882

Russian Documentary On 'Helpful' 1968 Invasion Angers Czechs .
Czechs are up in arms about a Russian television documentary that justifies the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia as necessary "to protect" Soviet allies from NATO "aggression."
http://www.rferl.mobi/a/27047867.html
On August 21, 1968, the Soviet Union and its East Bloc allies invaded Czechoslovakia in reaction to liberalization reforms by communist leader Alexander Dubcek.
The invasion claimed more than 100 lives, halted the reforms, and reinforced the dominance of conservatives within Czechoslovakia's ruling communist party.
The Russian documentary described the invasion as "help" for the people of Czechoslovakia in preventing the "illegal armed overthrow of the government" by radical Czech groups linked to the West. The invasion, the documentary goes on to explain, took place as NATO troops were "ready to enter Czechoslovakia."

Baltic Sea States Aghast At Russian Exclave's Sewage Dumping .
http://www.rferl.mobi/a/kaliningrad-baltic-sea-sewage/27053241.html
In fact, pollution is killing this European sea -- and by spewing untreated waste from a sewer system one activist described as "medieval," the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad is doing more than its part, marine scientists, environmentalists, and European officials say.

"This is one of the world's most polluted oceans," said Fredrik Wulff, a professor of marine systems ecology at Stockholm University and a leading authority on the Baltic Sea. "Because it's an almost closed body of water, everything that's dumped here stays for decades."

"Kaliningrad (one million inhabitants), in terms of water pipes and sewers, is a completely medieval city that pours its waste into the gutter. Just as they splashed it out the window in medieval cities, we throw it out not far from Kaliningrad, in just the same way," said Aleksandra Korolyova, a Kaliningrad-based activist with the Russian group Ekozashchita (Environmental Protection). "It's very clearly visible: it's just a black torrent that pours out of the pipe directly into the lagoon, and the lagoon is part of the sea."

Thank you very much Putin. дерьмо на вас в штанах!

Russian Public Opinion: Putin Praised, West Panned
http://thediplomat.com/2015/06/kazakhstan-russia-relations-with-liberals-like-these/

I read today that Putin is bragging this week that Russia will be building 40 new ICBMs that are defence proof. I wonder where they will be getting the money from.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

I read today that Putin is bragging this week that Russia will be building 40 new ICBMs that are defence proof. I wonder where they will be getting the money from.

Well you could ask this man.
Dmitry Rogozin
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia. Deputy Head of the Military-Industrial Commission. Special Envoy of the President
https://twitter.com/dRogozin

T wonder how much of the planet a country could destroy with 40 state of the art ICBMs. I had hoped for a while that the Russians had gotten over their paranoia about the west wanting to destroy them.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.

T wonder how much of the planet a country could destroy with 40 state of the art ICBMs. I had hoped for a while that the Russians had gotten over their paranoia about the west wanting to destroy them.

Putin played with rats when he was a kid in St Petersburg.
He learned that if rats where pushed in to a corner they jump.
He has told this in an auto biography.
That and beeing a former KGB officer...

T wonder how much of the planet a country could destroy with 40 state of the art ICBMs. I had hoped for a while that the Russians had gotten over their paranoia about the west wanting to destroy them.

There is no need to be the Putin to understand that the West (USA and US satellites) want to subordinate Russia, or, if it's impossible to subordinate, to destroy. Nothing unusual, it's geopolitics.

T wonder how much of the planet a country could destroy with 40 state of the art ICBMs. I had hoped for a while that the Russians had gotten over their paranoia about the west wanting to destroy them.

There is no need to be the Putin to understand that the West (USA and US satellites) want to subordinate Russia, or, if it's impossible to subordinate, to destroy. Nothing unusual, it's geopolitics.

It has been pretty quiet from the NATO ACE exercise critic of the major Russian exercises and the Kremlin's very real war in Ukraine - that plague all over Europe's security policy environment and does not benefit Russia's long-suffering people.
https://translate.google.se/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kuriren.nu%2Fopinion%2Fsakfel-gynnar-inte-sakerhetspolitisk-debatt-8326449.aspx&edit-text=

Yes. We want Ingria back.
Nyen Skans is now called St Petersburg:)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyenschantz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingria

US space agencies need additional Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines until a domestically produced equivalent is ready for use, the head of US Space Command said June 26.
http://sputniknews.com/us/20150628/1023940309.html

Sputnik is apparently only covering the Moscow-Texas links in its Scandinavian outlets, which seems ... weird.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/vladimir-putin-texas-secession-119288.html?hp=t4_r#.VY_OGrsw-Ja
http://se.sputniknews.com/asikt/20150627/358773.html

Moldovans choose between Russia, Europe in local elections.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/moldova-chooses-between-russia-europe-local-elections