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Comment: resistance against Putin’s Propaganda
The “case of Lisa” has been widely used as the crucial evidence to be interpreted: The Russian-speaking German are vulnerable to Putin’s Propaganda! No, exactly the opposite is the case, says Ingo Mannteufel.
Several Hundred Russian-German demonstrated in Villingen-Schwenningen in Baden-Württemberg
A “case Lisa” was for years under German Russia experts expected and feared. Since the Ukrainekrise and the hybrid warfare of Russia against the West was, among specialists in Germany, the concern is great that, around four million migrants from the former Soviet Union by Russian TV Propaganda, abetted, and in the sense of the Kremlin for its own purposes politically exploited could be.
In this January – in the context of the heated debate about refugee and asylum policies in Germany – are these fears become true: The Russian television common fairy story to a supposedly in Berlin of “southern migrants” vergewaltigtes 13-year-old girl of Russian descent that led to a series of demonstrations and rallies of Russian-speaking immigrants in Germany.
A few Thousand protesters are nothing
But those that are a success of the Russian Propaganda looks and comes to the conclusion that the Russian-speaking Diaspora as the Fifth column of Putin’s frivolous offers, misjudges the reality. The opposite is true: The “case Lisa” has shown that the Russian Propaganda with the clear majority of Russian-speaking people in Germany are not caught and the “Russians in Germany” much more integrated than the German experts had feared.
Ingo Mannteufel heads the Russian editorial office of DW
Given the four million Russian-speaking people in Germany, a total of only a few Thousand protesters at various demonstrations in Germany to an extremely low number. Politically significant are these “Sowjetdeutschen” – as they call themselves – no way. At least not more than other abstruse Spinner, such as, for example, the followers of the Chemtrails conspiracy in the Contrails of aircraft any toxins want to identify. These groups, if they organize themselves, in Germany, a few Thousand demonstrators on the streets. Well, and? The open society in Germany holds the loose.
The “case of Lisa” has rather obviously shown that the clear majority of Russian-speaking German just yet the representatives of the Berlin public Prosecutor’s office believes and not the 1. Russian Channel. Because most of the Deutschrussen are long since in Germany at that time that they have their own experiences of German everyday life more is to trust, as the virtual fairy tale of the Russian media.
Russian Diaspora not a Fifth column of Putin
Certainly there are also among the Russian-speaking German, the refugee policy of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel skeptical judge. It does indeed become more than half of all Germans. So it is not surprising, when to a German of Russian origin.
That the Russian-speaking Diaspora in Germany as a massive Fifth column for Putin’s political influence in Germany is appropriate, the “case of Lisa,” but refuted. This is despite all the media excitement around the “case of Lisa” and legitimate criticism of the brazen Kremlin Propaganda a deeply soothing result.
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