This is mainly for Portuguese comrades as they’re probably the most familiar with him but anyone can answer. I see this man constantly on SIC Notícias and all he really talks about is the Ukraine/Russia/NATO war. He’s also got a segment called “Guerra Fria” which comes on frequently enough. Mind you, I can’t understand most of what he and the other people say but I can read the headlines underneath and can pick up context words. He’s always talking about Ucrânia and that got me curious about him due to how seemingly passionate he is about the topic.
I looked him up and from what I can gather he’s a journalist (obviously) who used to be a communist and lived in the USSR. Apparently his time living in the Soviet Union pushed him away from communism and he is now a staunch anti-communist, someone on Twitter called this being “vaccinated.” He has a blog and he even made an entry back in 2014 about the neo-Nazi problem in Ukraine. He switched up real quick. In 2022 he even said that the difference between Putin and Hitler is that Putin has nuclear weapons… what?
Obviously there’s the language barrier (there shouldn’t be but my family was not great in teaching me) that’s keeping me from having a deeper and better analysis so that’s why I’m asking here. Is anyone else more familiar with this guy? Why is he such a big deal in Portugal? Also does anyone know why he’s like this? Is there anything about his cohost Nuno Rogeiro?
Maybe this isn’t important, but I get annoyed every time I see him on screen and I want to know if anyone else feels the same. I ask now because he was brought on to talk about the recent terrorist attack in Moscow, I don’t know what he said about it, or how he feels, but he did talk about it.
A comrade from Portugal in ProleWiki said this about him:
But that’s basically what they say, he was almost a nobody and when the war started he was put in front of the cameras every day to comment on it
He not only lived in the USSR but also did his university studies there, that’s all I know, I don’t follow him and I find him insufferableHe’s basically the guy that people point to and say: “See?! He went to the CCCP and he hated it! Now disregard everyone else that liked it!”
That’s literally what weirdos on Twitter were saying lol it’s embarrassing that he would allow himself to be aligned with these people, but it is what it is.
Same as it ever was.
So he wasn’t a big deal before the war? I guess I thought he was a big shot because it seems like they uphold him as the expert of all experts, when really he’s not. That’s really shameful. At least someone else finds him as annoying as I do. Thanks for sharing, comrade.
I looked him up and from what I can gather he’s a journalist (obviously) who used to be a communist and lived in the USSR. Apparently his time living in the Soviet Union pushed him away from communism and he is now a staunch anti-communist
If he can’t appreciate the fight against fascism carried on by the GDR/DDR against the Federal Republic or the fight against neo-fascism today then he’s lost lmao
I don’t know how he was a communist in the first place, but I guess it does happen.
Anti-communist Portuguese people on Twitter seem to use him as an example quite a bit when it comes to their propaganda. It’s a weird situation and he’s a weird guy. I’m not thrilled that they’re parading him around as some expert when he wasn’t even an authority before 2022. Now suddenly his word is gospel. Portuguese news is skewed in one direction anyway so I guess I can’t be too surprised.
Yeah, just use counter-examples, if you need to.
