My favorite link for whenever the Russian interfearance bullshit comes up.
https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19960715,00.html
We literally bragged on the cover of time magazine that we intentionally worked to get yeltsin elected (obviously, a country trying to get a leader elected that’s more beneficial to them is jot exactly a wild idea)
And our involvement wasn’t just making racist Facebook posts about minorities in Russia to get racists to vote for him.
I learn something new every day on this website.
I feel like this should be a site emoji.
Dems complaining about Russia posting racist Facebook memes and acting like it’s justification to bomb Moscow is shockingly hypocritical, even for liberals.
It’s also fun to read about the anticommunist media campaign in favor of Yeltsin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Russian_presidential_election#Pro-Yeltsin_media_bias
Today, this would be considered propaganda by the authoritarian Putler, but in 1996 this was wholesome 100 democracy.
and nothing like supporting incel terrorists in Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Burkina Faso
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324619/
Storyline
Early in 1996, three Republican campaign operatives take a job in secret assisting Boris Yeltsin’s reelection. Once in Moscow, they find he’s polling at 6 percent with the election a few months away. While Dick Dresner wants to go home, George Gorton and Joe Shumate vote to stay. First, they must get someone’s attention; they succeed finally with Yeltsin’s daughter. Then it’s polling, focus groups, messages and spin. Even as Yeltsin’s numbers go up, the trio are unsure who hired them and whether Yeltsin’s allies have a different plan in mind than election victory. When the going gets toughest, it’s Gorton who puts a spin on our stake: democracy and capitalism must win.
Trivia
The film is based on actual events. While the film portrays all three consultants as being in Russia during the entire campaign, Gorton, Dresner and Shumate flew in and out of Russia during the five month period from February through July, 1996. Usually, two of the three were in Russia while the other was in the USA. This was a safety precaution, so if something went wrong in Russia, the member of the team in the US could get the other two out.
When the going gets toughest, it’s Gorton who puts a spin on our stake: democracy and capitalism must win.
I’m never watching this movie even out of morbid curiosity.
Man, I’m out here reading books and uncovering these truths, and you’re telling me I could have watched Jeff Goldblum, Anthony Lapaglia and Liev Schreiber reenact the story instead!?
Something tells me it would be as much worth as watching Jud Suss by Veit Harlan compared to reading the book by Feuchtwanger.
