Given the past accusations against Russia for interfering in the 2016 US elections, Russia continues this practice with the influence of “soft power” to the detriment of Western countries and more specifically in the influence of the result of the National Elections in Germany on 26/09 / 2021.
Ways of Russian of foreign electoral intervention
Influence from Russia is achieved in specific ways and channeled into public opinion through specific means. In more detail:
• A video has been posted on YouTube arguing in favor of vaccine conspiracy theories in Germany, constantly fueling the quiver of the Covid-19 vaccine movement with arguments for them to continue their protests.
• Posts on social media (Facebook) promoted by a local far-right political party, with notifications on thousands of accounts.
• Messages on social media (Twitter) in which they attack a leading German politician in the run-up to the elections, to influence and turn voters against him.
• The medium that promotes them is RT Deutsch (the German-language version of RT), which is supported by the Russian state apparatus.
The creation of fear in the peoples
In this way, the conditions are created for a people’s critical choices to advance Russia’s views, assumptions, and strategic interests.
RT Deutsch focuses on:
1. In promoting vaccination phobia for Covid-19.
2. In the propaganda against the center-left party and against the party of the Greens, while supporting the far-right and Euro-skeptical party AFD.
3. To create conditions of discord and bigotry that aim to lead a portion of the German people to cause social unrest.
The technique of misinformation and material-moral support of far-right parties, which usually succeed against the West, is a technique widely used by the USSR during the Cold War to fully support the Communist parties in Western Europe to promote discord. against the democratic way of life.
The first step to a conscious transformation
Propagandists always aim to create in societies that target the feeling of fear, because they know that the problem of a society is fear. Whatever evil befalls man is through fear. Fear is created by the concept of need. Man is afraid because he will be deprived of something he needs.
False needs created by false information create overwhelming fears. The inflation of needs creates and magnifies fears. A frightened man and consequently a frightened society can never be a free man and, respectively, never a free society. Limiting fears to natural fears only allows us to become freer people.
